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| 294.1 | | HAMPS::MANSFIELD_S | An English Sarah | Mon Apr 30 1990 19:04 | 9 |
| 294.2 | Or for the price of a tea-strainer... | HAMPS::MANSFIELD_S | An English Sarah | Mon Apr 30 1990 19:05 | 3 |
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Alternatively, do what my mum does & use a tea strainer after the
kettle's boiled.
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| 294.3 | This wor... Arghhhh | LARVAE::MOORE_A | Dont Worry- Its only 1's and 0's | Mon Apr 30 1990 19:22 | 11 |
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I find a few drops of concentrated hydrochloric acid in the kettle
whenever you fill up does the trick.
It makes the coffee taste B****y awful but the kettle is nice and
clean.
Regards
Andrew
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| 294.4 | | HAMPS::THAYER_S | meow | Mon Apr 30 1990 20:18 | 12 |
| Dougie,
Go for the jug water filter! My brand new kettle furred up within
a week of moving to Basingstoke and my coffee was undrinkable because
of the scum on the side of the cup.
I bought a "Brita" water filter and descaled the kettle.
3 months on and I still don't have a scaley kettle, nor is my coffee
scummy, nor does the coffee taste B****y awful!
Susi
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| 294.5 | | KERNEL::MOUNTFORD | | Mon Apr 30 1990 20:52 | 4 |
| Have you considered a water softener? But not specifically
recommneded for drinking water. We keep 2 jug kettles on the go.
Richard.
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| 294.6 | Don't leave the filters in too long. | TASTY::JEFFERY | Is "Bones" the real McCoy ?? | Tue May 01 1990 00:31 | 12 |
| Hi,
Talking about the concentrated Hydrochloric acid. From what I remember
of my Chemistry lessons, The ion exchangers (which is what I think the
water softeners use), eventually run out of H and OH ions to exchange
for the Sulphates, Calcium and Sodium ions, and instead swap a OH in
the water for a Sulphate. This makes good old H2SO4 or Sulphuric Acid!
I think that some water softeners use litmus, and when this goes red,
you should change the filter.
Mark.
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| 294.7 | Ahh ... Bostik | LARVAE::MOORE_A | Dont Worry- Its only 1's and 0's | Tue May 01 1990 12:59 | 5 |
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Ok - that's the last time I try to engage in humourous diversions
with you lot !
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| 294.8 | | BIGHUN::THOMAS | The Devon Dumpling | Wed May 02 1990 19:16 | 13 |
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Another suggestion:
Move to Plymouth
I had a thirteen-year old kettle when I moved here, no scale whatsoever,
after the first use here you could see scale already forming.
Heather
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| 294.9 | | YUPPY::FOX | Harry Stow-Crat, Esq. | Wed May 02 1990 20:32 | 2 |
| Put a couple of seashells in the kettle and leave them there.
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| 294.10 | | KERNEL::HUTCHINGS | Lunch is for wimps | Thu May 03 1990 14:07 | 1 |
| Don't drink tea
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| 294.11 | try this | CURRNT::WRIGHT | LDIR can make the earth move | Thu May 03 1990 15:48 | 10 |
| I had the same problem. So I bought a lump of metal which you put
in the kettle. This attracts the scale and leaves youre water nice
and clean.
The lump of metal is like a cyclindrical roll of wire mesh about
1 inch in diameter and length and costs about 50p.
Tony
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| 294.12 | I don't drink tea... | KERNEL::ABELL | | Thu May 03 1990 15:53 | 2 |
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....and there I was thinking that that was a "BRILLO" pad...
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| 294.13 | Scale - well you get used to it | XNOGOV::HELEN | | Thu May 03 1990 17:49 | 5 |
| In our kettle that seams to make it worse cause it kinda breaks all
the scale up into smaller pieces, so you still get pieces of scale in
your tea - they're just smaller.
Hele Helen.
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| 294.14 | Best Buy | LARVAE::BARKER | Do not fold, spindle or mutilate | Thu May 03 1990 19:28 | 7 |
| The current issue of the consumer magazine 'Which' has a test of kettle
(& coffee pot) descalers. I was astonished to find that there are over a dozen
on the market.
Best Buy was Ketlene - Kettle Fur Remover
Nigel
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| 294.15 | | KERNEL::HUTCHINGS | Lunch is for wimps | Thu May 03 1990 20:00 | 8 |
| re: .11
see .1
"That funny metal wire mesh thing in the bottom of my kettle doesn't..."
nuff said..??
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| 294.16 | Filter it - it's the only way... | SUBURB::MAYNED | Norm Tebbit for prime Minister | Fri May 04 1990 16:44 | 13 |
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I gave up with the metal mesh things as the improvement wasn't that
terrific. What I ended up doing was buying some stuff called 'Oz'
to clean out the kettle once and for all, and then bought myself
a Brita water filter. I only use filtered water and after, what
6 months my kettles still ok, no scum on the top of my tea or coffee
(which I drink black, so it's usually worse).
total cost, about #15 but worth every penny.
'till sanity,
Derek.
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| 294.17 | Water Softener is Probbly the Answer | LARVAE::NISBET_D | Dougie Nisbet | Fri May 04 1990 21:29 | 5 |
| Hi Derek! NotOnTheHeadCounters of the wrold Unite! You must inviteme up for a
nice cup of tea sometime?
Dougie
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| 294.18 | | ARRODS::CARTER | We arra champions! | Thu May 10 1990 16:22 | 9 |
| 294.19 | | COMICS::WEGG | Some hard boiled eggs & some nuts | Thu May 10 1990 17:17 | 19 |
| Having lived all my life in hard water areas, I've always taken
chalk deposits in my tea for granted. I only discovered soft water
when I visited friends in the West Country and noticed that:
(A) Their wedding present kettle was still as good as new
internally 6 months later and
(B) having a shower would result in a mountain of frothy soap
suds that were very difficult to get rid of.
My wife, however, hates the fact that small sections of the white
cliffs of Dover regularly accumulate in our kettle, and she
descales it every month.
It's worth remembering that gritty tea isn't the only effect of
hard water. The scale forms when water his heated above a certain
temperature (I forget what it is), so unless you do something
about it, you can expect it to accumulate in your central heating
system, electric emersion heater, steam iron and washing machine.
Ian.
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| 294.20 | Never mind the tea what about my shower | COMICS::MILLAR | No Porn please I'm Graphic | Thu May 10 1990 17:24 | 8 |
| Is there some sort of removeable filter that you could insert into the
cold mains supply of the house. As Ian mentioned the kettle is only
one problem, I have an electric shower that has to have the shower head
thumped against the wall every other day.
Regards
Bruce
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| 294.21 | Well, I have seen one!! | MALLET::HOOK_R | Steaming Locknut. | Thu May 10 1990 19:45 | 19 |
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>> Is there some sort of removeable filter that you could insert into the
>> cold mains supply of the house.
In a plumbers merchant last Saturday, I notice a "Ceramic Cartridge"
device that fits into the rising mains and claims to remove the
scale-making bits in the water (how's that for a technical
description?).
Unlike the earlier "Ceramic magnet" device (which I know works), the
cartridge is removable for cleaning. Apparently there are two
versions, one with a ceramic catridge (which will need to be replaced
from time to time) or a stainless steel version (which is supposed to
last forever).
The price was approx 56 pounds for the Ceramic version and approx 80
pounds for the stainless steel version.
Richard who_is_thinking_about_it_but_needs_convincing.
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| 294.22 | Go for it, and then let us know!! | HAMPS::JORDAN | Chris Jordan, London Technology Group, UK | Fri May 11 1990 20:36 | 13 |
| We had a plumber come and fix a new radiator in the house... he
said that he had been using a filter on his mains in-let for the
last 10 years... he had no problems, and did NOT have the problem
that 'water softeners' do of having to fill it up with salt every
month.
He suggested that it would be possible to re-coop the cost (and
his fees for installing it) in a little over 12 months... (due to
better heating and free-er movement of water around the system -
and also less breakdowns were likely in the boiler and pump, when
it tries to pump these bits of Dover around the system).
As yet we haven't tried it, but it certainly seemed a good idea...
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