Water Tanks

On Jul 23, 3:04 pm, "Nicholas D. Richards"
<nicho...@salmiron.> wrote:
> In article <983bd264-51d0-4a7c-a16f-08bc14c97...@c58g2000hsc.p
> s.com>, Tony Haynes <canaldrif...@ntlworld.com>  on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 at
> 04:36:47 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
>
>
>
> >On Jul 22, 10:46 pm, Tiny <dhsrcr...m> wrote:
> >> On Jul 22, 6:12 pm, Brian J Goggin <myinitialsATmyorganization.ie>
> >> wrote:
>
> >> > On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:59:57 +0100, "John Gwalter"
>
> >> > <ern...@stoppage.gwalter.co.uk> wrote:
> >> > >When a drinking water thread ends up with toilets you know it's a boating
> >> > >newsgroup.
>
> >> > Really? I mean, most drinking water ends up in toilets. But maybe
> >> > non-boaters do things differently ....
>
> >> > bjg
>
> >> And from toilets a lot of it goes on to finally end up in rivers and
> >> canals.
>
> >... which ends up in the sea..... which evaporates into clouds...
> >which deposit water into reservoirs..... which is filtered..... which
> >we then drink..... which we pee into toilets.. etc.... etc.....
>
> >Aaah... the good old water cycle....... better known in plumbing
> >circles as 'getting your own back'.
>
> In submariner circles, getting your own back, is when you lean over the
> toilet to flush and get the valve sequence wrong.
>
> --
> Nicholas David Richards -
>
> "Où sont les neiges d'antan?"

I'm aware of that one courtesy of good ol' Cyril Tawney. Now that is
some cistern!

Also, the misuse of the pigs ear and the jaunty's cap.

Tone (ex RN)

Tone

CS explained :
> On 19 Jul, 22:58, CS <colinst...@m> wrote:
>> Go to your swimming pool supplier and get some calcium hypochlorite.
>> Add a few grams to the tank - I'll post the exact recipe when I find
>> it.  Much cheaper than Aqua whatever.  As used by the Royal Navy in
>> their tanks - just think of how many aqua whatever pills in 20,000
>> litre tanks!!!
>
> Worked it out, and you do not need much. To achieve 0.5ppm free
> chlorine in the storage tank requires 0.9g per 1000 litres of water
> using 55% calcium hypochlorite, typically as sold for swinmming
> pools. This should equate to 0.2ppm at the taps. 5kg costs approx
> £20. A tub split several ways between a few boaters would not be
> much!!

We use to use "Champion" sterilising bleach, we added 1 pint to 40 tons
of water, at that level you could just taste it.