Rochester Water / RODI

[votek]

I have an older Water General 6100DINT; I'm planning to replace the 2 carbon filters along with the sediment filter.

It has been sitting unused for about 4-5 years. I'm curious about the water in Rochester (Webster) and if I need more chlorine removal before it gets to the membrane?

I'm planning to get new replacement filters for it:
http://bit.ly/f1znmJ

Any other suggestions?

 

[Buckeye Hydro]

Sure.

Considering it has been sitting around for years undused, before you do anything, strip out all of the filters including the membrane and toss them. Sanitize the system. Don't use/drink the water before you do this.

 

[Buckeye Hydro]

Assuming you get your water from the City of Rochester, I checked your 2010 drinking water quality report and saw they use chlorine rather than chloramine as a disinfectant.

A single good quality carbon block will be sufficient in your case.

The vender you reference doesn't provide adequate spec's for their carbon blocks, so hard to tell what you'd get from them.

This is the vender that equips systems with horizontal DI stages. We consider this a fundamental configuration fault, and have rebuilt many of these systems for people who have come to better understand what they got, and didn't get from this vender.

If you'd like written instructions to reconfigure the system to include a full size vertical refillable DI stage, feel free to drop us and email.

Russ

 

[votek]

Sounds like it would be a much better choice to just scrap it and put the money towards a new system.

 

[Buckeye Hydro]

If you're handy, and have the patience to sanitize it, the cost to do the modifications we recommend isn't much.

All new filters would run around $75

Is there any damage to the system? Rusted bracket? Broken fittings? Missing fittings/pieces/parts?

Russ

 

[votek]

Russ, thanks for your help. I'm certainly no expert with these and appreciate it. Perhaps these pictures will help you identify if it looks to be salvageable.

All of the fittings look like they are still in good shape / sealed. There is a little rust on the metal bracket but it doesn't look like it is too bad.

 

[Buckeye Hydro]

Yuck! looks like that thing has seen its better days!

My guess is that rather than the mold and rust being the big problems, you'll find that the orings in the system - that seal the vertical housings, and that seal the RO membrane housing, have dried up and gone bad.

As old as it is, I doubt even the original vender would know what housings were used and therefore which replacement orings are needed.

Russ

 

[Srixon]

If you scrap it....I would like it.
Thanks

 

[Buckeye Hydro]

Plumb it and see if it leaks, Loosen all the housings and retighten them and see if it leaks then.

Russ