Culligan AC-30

[nfored]

Has any one used one of these for making their R/O water? will it be just as good as something I buy online? The problems I worry about is that it sat with water in it for a while, and I don't see any ratings on new membranes to tell me how much use I will get.

Story:

My office used this until the cooler spring a "Leak". They told me I could have the R/O Unit the cooler and the 3 gallon storage container.

The cooler leak I discovered was nothing more then a loose 1/4 tubing, I fixed that and I use the cooler now with no filter. I am tempted to throw away the storage container just because I don't know how to clean it good enough open to ideas.

Cleaning steps:
It sat at the office for some months full of water, I took it home drained the water and its all been sitting empty in my house for close to a year.


The actual R/O unit is one of the tall ones I took it apart and cleaned what I could access when I got it home a year ago. So I think I could flush this out for a hour and it would be clean enough. The is a 36GPD R/O unit my soon to be tank is only 55 gallons so I am guessing I would only use 10 gallons aweek.

 

[disc1]

The only problem I would see is the lack of a DI stage. RO alone will not remove ammonia, nitrate, phosphate, anything like that. Carbon blocks help, but you really need that DI stage to get good water.

 

[nfored]

I have two inline refilabe tubes used for di so I guess I can toss those on there also.

Any thoughts on any nasty stuff that might be living inside the filter where I couldn't clean.

 

[disc1]

That's a different story. Some of those filters do get really nasty. A lot of it depends on the quality of water that was fed into it.

 

[nfored]

So should I assume its not safe? or is there something I can do like run some vinegar through it a couple times and then flush it with water? I am only talking about the actual filter not the tank, I am pretty sure I should count the tank as a loss.

 

[disc1]

if you can't change the membrane in it, I would toss it.

 

[nfored]

if you can't change the membrane in it, I would toss it.

Not sure what you mean? the ro membrane is always replaceable, other wise the whole unit would have to be thrown away every year or so. What I was talking about is the internal plumbing between filter cartridges in the ro unit.

 

[disc1]

Oh, I misunderstood. That should be ok. You might give it good rinse and check that there's nothing slimy or green.