Mr. Clean Autodry
06-01-2004, 04:55 PM
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RE: Mr. Clean Autodry
If the filter on those is just like the one in a water softener for a house, then you might try soaking and rinsing it in water with salt. In home water softeners, salt is used to breakdown and rinse away the minerals that the filter collected. It's like recharging your K&N.
06-01-2004, 05:09 PM
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RE: Mr. Clean Autodry
Thats actually not how a water softener works, there aren't any filters in a water softener. Water passing through the mineral tank loses positively charged calcium and magnesium ions to negatively charged plastic beads. The salt in the brine tank is used to clean the mineral deposits off of the plastic resin. What actually makes the water soft is the minerals being removed from the water itself.
In the auto dry...The filter is a reverse osmosis system. Which is a lot harder to explain, but the bottom line is don't clean the filter with salt. It can't be cleaned, and you'd just be spraying salt water all over your car.
In the auto dry...The filter is a reverse osmosis system. Which is a lot harder to explain, but the bottom line is don't clean the filter with salt. It can't be cleaned, and you'd just be spraying salt water all over your car.
06-01-2004, 09:06 PM
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RE: Mr. Clean Autodry
ORIGINAL: sidewayz4.6
Thats actually not how a water softener works, there aren't any filters in a water softener. Water passing through the mineral tank loses positively charged calcium and magnesium ions to negatively charged plastic beads. The salt in the brine tank is used to clean the mineral deposits off of the plastic resin. What actually makes the water soft is the minerals being removed from the water itself.
In the auto dry...The filter is a reverse osmosis system. Which is a lot harder to explain, but the bottom line is don't clean the filter with salt. It can't be cleaned, and you'd just be spraying salt water all over your car.
Thats actually not how a water softener works, there aren't any filters in a water softener. Water passing through the mineral tank loses positively charged calcium and magnesium ions to negatively charged plastic beads. The salt in the brine tank is used to clean the mineral deposits off of the plastic resin. What actually makes the water soft is the minerals being removed from the water itself.
In the auto dry...The filter is a reverse osmosis system. Which is a lot harder to explain, but the bottom line is don't clean the filter with salt. It can't be cleaned, and you'd just be spraying salt water all over your car.
06-01-2004, 09:32 PM
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RE: Mr. Clean Autodry
Well, I think I'm definetally gonna have to try it. It would have to work pretty darn good for me to make the switch, because personally I don't find drying the car myself to be too big of a pain in the ****. I use a thing called the 'California water blade', which is a squeege-type thing with a purple handle and soft plastic tip that wicks the water away from the car. It works great.
