Be sure to flush with fresh product water or distilled water. The residual
chlorine in tap water will eat membranes quickly.

--
Glenn Ashmore

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"chuck" wrote in message
hlink.net...
Yeah, the pickling chemicals tend to be hard on parts of the watermaker.
Flushing with distilled water every 2-3 weeks is what Village Marine
recommends. If that is not an option, then pickling is your only other
choice and there may be some adverse consequences. I don't think there are
hard and fast data available to support an assertion that after x months
of pickling the WM self-destructs. Lots of variables, many of which are
beyond your control.

Chuck