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  1. 11th August 2025, 12:59 PM #1
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    Cleaning mineral buildup in inbuilt water tank?

    We're in the process of cleaning up after an outback trip with the Trayon. We had to source water from outback supplies which were often bore water or similar. Our stainless steel thermos now has a coating of mineral buildup inside it, so presumably the inbuilt 100L water tank and the 15l Truma hot water heater will also have a mineral buildup inside them. How does one clean this? Is there some agent that can be added to a tank of clean water and then flushed out?
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    I'll go you halves in a bag (useful for cleaning scale from coffee machine boilers too)

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    How are you filtering your water?
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    Quote Originally Posted by towe0609 View Post
    I'll go you halves in a bag (useful for cleaning scale from coffee machine boilers too)

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    You're on. Would you like to get it, or shall I?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift View Post
    How are you filtering your water?
    Filtering...yeah...umm...I run it in through a garden hose, so I guess that will filter out anything bigger than about 19mm?
    I waited about half an hour in Marble Bar while a caravan bloke ahead of me filled his tank, I noticed he had a filter gizmo on his hose. I had never given this any thought before.
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    Quote Originally Posted by POD View Post
    You're on. Would you like to get it, or shall I?
    I'll grab one. Have asked to collect tomorrow night.
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    Go down to 12mm garden hose, that should improve things dramatically.

    However my experience working for organisations that owned and operated water filtration systems, scale or hardness has to be removed by a "softener" that involves salt, or an RO system which uses softened water anyway to stop clogging the filter membranes.
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    Picking up bag tomorrow night. Feel free to swing by Moe - a trip to the West would have to wait for the weekend
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