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    Posted: 18 May 2015 at 3:54pm
Is this totally necessary? Just asking so we know how early to get started
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Personally I don't do it anymore.  We don't drink from the RV water supply and the active ingredient in the pink antifreeze is in the alcohol family so it must kill stuff while it sits in the lines all winter.  That leaves the fresh water tank and it sits dry all winter.
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Posts: 231 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 May 2015 at 4:14pm
So taking a shower never caused your skin to fall off? Lol. That's from the wife
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Posts: 9062 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 May 2015 at 9:19pm
Only once.  But we were camped next to a nuclear waste facility at the time so I chalked it up to that.
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Posts: 4518 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 May 2015 at 9:27pm
Maybe glow a little bit LOL
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Posts: 6128 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 May 2015 at 10:15pm
My thoughts are, I shower in it, and I cook with it, and I wash dishes with it. My dogs occasionally drink it. In any of those scenarios, the heebyjeebys can/might happen. So I like to know I did my part to stop them. My dogs having the heebiejeebies would be the worst I think, but it takes 10 minutes of interaction on my part to prevent it for sure...

BTW I cut open a potable water only hose this spring that had developed a couple kinks, and added hose repair couplings.. I took some pictures of what I found.. I will post them up...

OK, so I figure the hose gets filled with city water every time the plumbing of the pod does.. I always sanitize my hoses at the same time I am doing the pod. This is what I found, and what it looked like after sanitizing. I have to assume, the inside of the pods plumbing is the same..

Inside of hose..


My treatment apparatus..


The inside of the hose after sanitizing..


Gratuitous picture of repair coupling in action..
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Thanks for sharing Furpod.  That was some nasty looking stuff inside that hose.  I wonder what's in  Techntrek's plumbing since he doesn't sanitize his pod? Shocked
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Posts: 1108 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 19 May 2015 at 7:27am
My 2ยข, absolutely necessary, whether you drink it or not. 
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Furpod, nice pics!
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Dammit Furpod!!! Robin saw the pics, now my plans of laziness are ruined! Sanitizing...
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