Rinsing salt
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Rinsing salt
Hi. I need some help. I'm building my first boka and I coiled 6 mm copper in two layers. About 7 meters of pipe. I put salt inside and it coiled beautifully and didn't kink. The problem is I can't get the salt out. Is there any helpful solution? I put it into a tank with water hoping it dissolves but to no avail so far. Any suggestions please?
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Re: Rinsing salt
Water pressure works well to clear salt, plum it up to a tap and let the water push through.
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Re: Rinsing salt
OK thanks. I'm trying it now.
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Re: Rinsing salt
Using hot water helps too....it keeps the brine’s viscosity a little lower.
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Re: Rinsing salt
The salt starter to appear outside the other side of the pipe,
so sooner or later it will be rinsed out. Thanks a lot.
so sooner or later it will be rinsed out. Thanks a lot.
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Re: Rinsing salt
Works perfectly. It took a couple of hours, but works. Thanks a million.
Re: Rinsing salt
Same happened to me and probably everyone who used salt. It takes a while, but inevitably dissolves and blows through just fine.Zbokowaniec wrote: ↑Sat Jul 27, 2019 1:48 am Works perfectly. It took a couple of hours, but works. Thanks a million.
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Re: Rinsing salt
I had the same problem. I happened to have a garden pressure sprayer. the hose fit over 1/4 " pipe perfectly. I filled it with hot water, and pumped up the pressure and left it for about 2 hours. It was done perfectly when I checked it.
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Re: Rinsing salt
It took 4 weeks of constant connection to my garden hose to blow through the salt on my double coil condenser
. I was about to throw it in the bin and start again when it erupted.
