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Perry, you said 'Whohooo! to city water. Was your previous source a well? Cisterns that I'm familiar with are usually filled by precipitation.

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Larry in Seattle

Larry, Perry said earlier that his well water was kinda stinky, or words to that effect. And Alberta isn't overly blessed with rainfall. So trucking in city water is his solution. We have cisterns for similar reasons - our drilled well is salty and our dug well runs dry in the summer, but at least we have reliable rainfall in Nova Scotia so we don't have to truck water.

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Warren
Isuzu Pickup/SR20DE, +401 COLD frame
Build Log: viewtopic.php?f=35&t=11601

Thanks Waren. Pretty much along the lines I was thinking.

Get the DN out much over the winter?

Cheers!

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Larry in Seattle

Sailed my DN about a dozen days locally but missed some good ice elsewhere due to COVID. Hopefully more normal winter next time.

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Warren
Isuzu Pickup/SR20DE, +401 COLD frame
Build Log: viewtopic.php?f=35&t=11601

Covid screwed up a lot of lives. Perhaps next year, I used to race a Laser. Alwas fascinated by the DNs. Now I'm to old to start. Even sold my Beneteau.COPD drove me away.

Better times ahead!

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Larry in Seattle

Hey Larry, like Warren said, our water well has.........wait for it......salt, natural gas, iron, and blue clay. We've put up with it for 30 years, I would never buy expensive faucets as they would burn out just as fast as the cheap ones because of the salt. We can't really wash whites because they turn yellow, wifey has to use distilled water to rinse her hair because the well water would turn it yellow (her hair is white, she mostly blames that on me ). So we've decided to bite the bullet and haul city water to our farm at a cost of $6 a cubic meter. Of course my time costs nothing because I'm retired and have nothing to do

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Perry

'If man built it, man can fix it'
"No one ever told me I couldn't do it."
"If you can't build it safe, don't build it."

Perry's Locost Super Che7enette Build
Perry's TBird Based 5.0L Super 7 L.S.O
Perry's S10 Super 7 The 3rd
Perry's 4th Build The Topolino 500 (Little Mouse) Altered
Perry's 5th Build the Super Slant 6 Super 7
Perry's Final Build the 1929 Mercedes Gazelle

How do you find time to build 7s?

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Honey anyone?

Good solution to the water situation. $6 CDN per cubic meter seems a touch high but my wife handles the utility
bills so what the hell do I know?

And that 'not having anything to do' business doesn't hold any of the water for you cistern. Keep moving is the answer to staying out of the hospital so keep it up and stay young my friend.

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Larry in Seattle

Two cents a gallon ain't bad. Thinking back to the last time I had water trucked in the bulk of the charge was for trucking. Just like getting a tandem load of gravel.

Perry, do you have your own tank trailer or will you have it delivered? My memory is that a single axle tank truck was about 1500 gallons and a dual axle truck closer to 3000. Delivering city water in repurposed milk trucks is a healthy niche business here in Nova Scotia.

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Warren
Isuzu Pickup/SR20DE, +401 COLD frame
Build Log: viewtopic.php?f=35&t=11601

Now I know why the Captain is such a good friend to ya, the same reasons the sailors like rum, it's drinkable when the water isn't!

Oh Bent, there's always time to build 7's even if I have to make time

You know Larry iffin JD was still around he would be all over that statement, as much as it pains me I won't touch it

Warren I have a 3500# single axle trailer and a 1000L (220 gal) caged water tote. Took me 10 trips to fill the tank, but like I says.....I work for free

Shhhhhish, I didn't tell the Capt'n yet that I have drinkable water, maybe in a year or two.

Today I commissioned the cistern water system to the house. Still have some odds and sods to do in the pump house but I'm 95% done. 32 days from pouring concrete to having a shower with 'city' water tonight

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Perry

'If man built it, man can fix it'
"No one ever told me I couldn't do it."
"If you can't build it safe, don't build it."

Perry's Locost Super Che7enette Build
Perry's TBird Based 5.0L Super 7 L.S.O
Perry's S10 Super 7 The 3rd
Perry's 4th Build The Topolino 500 (Little Mouse) Altered
Perry's 5th Build the Super Slant 6 Super 7
Perry's Final Build the 1929 Mercedes Gazelle

Finished up odds and ends in the pumphouse/cistern about 10 days ago, still have to run natural gas to the building for winter heat. I have a friend that does that so we just have to set a date to do it.

As I said it was 10 days ago, then I forced myself to do nothing and rest until yesterday then it was back to the build!

Made a pattern then cut and bent the aluminum console cover and polished it. Installed it and the dash panel for the final time. couple of pics.

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Perry

'If man built it, man can fix it'
"No one ever told me I couldn't do it."
"If you can't build it safe, don't build it."

Perry's Locost Super Che7enette Build
Perry's TBird Based 5.0L Super 7 L.S.O
Perry's S10 Super 7 The 3rd
Perry's 4th Build The Topolino 500 (Little Mouse) Altered
Perry's 5th Build the Super Slant 6 Super 7
Perry's Final Build the 1929 Mercedes Gazelle

I was skeptical, but this works. I've had one for about a year.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/H2oEliteLab ... /305889529

Nice thing about calcium deposits in a water heater is that it will never rust. Mine is 25 years old. My maytag washer and dryer are 45.

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LOL, I have a graveyard out back filled with dish washers and top load/front load washing machines, amazingly my water heater is 27 years old - it must be glass lined

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Perry

'If man built it, man can fix it'
"No one ever told me I couldn't do it."
"If you can't build it safe, don't build it."

Perry's Locost Super Che7enette Build
Perry's TBird Based 5.0L Super 7 L.S.O
Perry's S10 Super 7 The 3rd
Perry's 4th Build The Topolino 500 (Little Mouse) Altered
Perry's 5th Build the Super Slant 6 Super 7
Perry's Final Build the 1929 Mercedes Gazelle

Sadly, my water is too hard for that device. I have a traditional water softener for my water. I replaced my water heater at 27 years old on general principles. Nothing was wrong with it. Just thought it was prudent. It lasted longer than my well tank, which failed catastrophically. My old water heater had no sacrificial anode. I had to replace the new one with a resistive anode and that didn't help. I had to go to a powered anode to get the rotten egg smell under control. I wasn't going to try running no anode at all. we'r on 15 years for the dish washer, and the washer. Maybe I'm lucky.

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Chuck.

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