Potable water filtration system

[Todd Jones]

The system I'm currently using for drinking water is: purified water from
Super Saver (local grocery store) for 27 cents a gallon ;-)

Todd Jones
"The Bus"
78FC33
Lincoln, NE.

.




On 12/1/06, Gardner Yeaw wrote:
>
> Leroy,
> I grew up on the same stuff. My grandmother had a hand pump outside
> for drinking water and the rest came through a 1/4 mile hose from a
> spring on the hillside. That's not the water or the plumbing I want
> to filter. I am thinking about a privately maintained distribution
> system that hundreds of people hook up to every year.
>
> Anyway, all I really wanted to know what system others were using.
>
> Gardner
> 787FC33
>
> --- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com,
> "Leroy Eckert"
> wrote:
> >
> > Just a little story about this water business then I'll be quiet.
> > I was raised on untreated, unfiltered well water. Over
> Thanksgiving I returned to my childhood home to visit with my mom. I
> drank, bathed in and cooked with the very same untreated, unfiltered
> well water that I grew up drinking and my mom has used for about 68
> years. She in 91 now God bless her. Makes it hard to get excited
> about filters these days.
> >
> > Leroy Eckert
> > 1990 WB-40 "Smoke N Mirrors"
> > Niceville, FL
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Leroy Eckert
> > To: WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 9:12 AM
> > Subject: Re: [WanderlodgeForum] Re: Potable water filtration
> system
> >
> >
> > Hey Howard:
> > I think there is a filter back by the bed that BB or Royale
> installed. At least that is what my book says. Honestly, I've never
> paid any attention to it and do not know what it does, if anything.
> > I do not spend my idle time worrying about coach water quality
> because it should be the same quality as the source unless there is
> something in that Camping World garden hose that attaches the coach
> to the source. The hose is the only variable I a can identify.
> > Sometimes marketing techniques can cause people to buy products
> that are not needed. If you are attached to a source other than
> treated water, that's another story.
> >
> > That just my theory. Never had any problems in approx 3 years.
> Hope all is well in GA
> >
> > Leroy Eckert
> > 1990 WB-40 "Smoke N Mirrors"
> > Niceville, FL
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Howard O. Truitt
> > To: WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 8:01 AM
> > Subject: Re: [WanderlodgeForum] Re: Potable water filtration
> system
> >
> > Leroy,
> > Have you installed a water filtration system on your BB? If so
> what?
> > Howard Truitt
> > Camilla, Ga.
> > "Under The Rainbow"
> > 86 PT40
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Leroy Eckert
> > To: WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 9:58 PM
> > Subject: Re: [WanderlodgeForum] Re: Potable water filtration
> system
> >
> > Gardner:
> > I guess I was asking in some goofy way if you have the same
> filtration system in your home? Probably not. I know I don't. I'd bet
> you wouldn't think twice about going to Rio for a month, returning
> and making a cup of coffee out of house water that had been stagnant
> in those pipes while you were gone. (assuming there wasn't a toilet
> float leak) Most of us use commercial chlorinated water systems for
> water. If your lines are clean in the bus I'd bet the water in the
> bus is the same quality as in your home. Actually I drink the water
> that is pumped through my bus. Haven't had any problems.
> >
> > Leroy Eckert
> > 1990 WB-40 "Smoke N Mirrors"
> > Niceville, FL
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Gardner Yeaw
> > To: WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 8:26 PM
> > Subject: [WanderlodgeForum] Re: Potable water filtration system
> >
> > Leroy,
> > It's not only the bugs, it's the other junk in the water.
> > Something that cleans out chemicals and other other unwanted by-
> > products of civilization is what I am aiming for.
> >
> > Gardner
> > 78FC33
> > --- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com,
> "Leroy Eckert"
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Gardner:
> > > Lets see. Coffee is hot and kills the bugs. 100 proof whiskey
> > should neutralize the bugs in the ice. I have a factory filter
> > system and drink bottled water and beer. I just do not trust the
> > city water system. LOL
> > >
> > > Leroy Eckert
> > > 1990 WB-40 "Smoke N Mirrors"
> > > Niceville, FL
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Gardner Yeaw
> > > To: WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com
> > > Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 7:11 PM
> > > Subject: [WanderlodgeForum] Potable water filtration system
> > >
> > >
> > > Does anyone have a reccomendation for a water filter system for
> > > drinking water? A simple particulate filter for dirt,etc is
> fine
> > for
> > > the shower and toilet, but the kitchen sink cold water and ice
> > maker
> > > are what I want to provide really well filtered water to. We
> > currently
> > > bring along bottled water for drinking, coffee, etc. and don't
> > use the
> > > icemaker, but that is a pain in the neck. Some of the
> filtration
> > > systems come in at 10 cents plus per gallon, but bottled water
> > is a
> > > heck of a lot more than that. My '78 has a small filter under
> > the sink
> > > for which I have no idea how to order a replacement cartridge.
> I
> > would
> > > rather start fresh and do it right.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions, experiences, wise cracks?
> > >
> > > Gardner
> > > 78FC33 (when the Bird is not at my house, I just spend my time
> > > thinking up questions)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> > >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > No virus found in this incoming message.
> > Checked by AVG Free Edition.
> > Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.15.0/557 - Release Date:
> 11/29/2006
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
>
>
>


[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]