Sears 625.34855, 625.34854 owner manual Care of Your Softener, Salt Bridge

SECTION 3

CARE OF YOUR SOFTENER

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3A. SALT. REFILLING STORAGE TANK/BREAKING A SALT BRIDGE

WHEN TO REFILL WITH SALT: The Salt

Monitor System (see page 10) will turn on the low salt light to warn you when to refill with salt.

Check for a low salt light a few weeks after you

install the softener, and every week after that.

Always refill at about the #2 salt monitor level. At this level, the tank is about 1/3 full. Never let

NOTE:

You will have a loss in softening capacity and

may get partly hard water if less than 10 inches

(salt monitor level 2) of salt is in the storage tank.

the softener use all the salt before refilling.

Without salt, you will soon have hard water.

PLEASE SEE PAGE 9 FOR SALT FILLING DIRECTIONS.

BE SURE TO RESET THE SALT MONITOR, PAGE 10

SALT

BRIDGE

Sometimes,

a hard crust

or

salt

bridge

forms

in

If the

wrong

kind

of salt made

the

bridge,

take it

the

salt

storage

tank.

It is

usually

caused

by

high

out.

Then

fill the

tank with nugget

or pellet salt

humidity

or

the

wrong

kind

of salt.

When

the

salt

only.

bridges,

an

empty

space

forms

between

the

SALT

BRIDGE

water

and salt.

Then

salt

will

not

dissolve

(melt)

in the

water

to

make

brine.

Without

brine,

the

resin bed does not regenerate

and

you

will have

hard

water.

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If the storage tank is full of salt, it is hard to tell if

you have a salt bridge. Salt is loose on top, but the

bridge is under it. The following is the best way to check for a salt bridge.

Salt should be loose all the way to the bottom of

the tank. Hold a broom handle, or like tool, up to

the softener as shown in FIG. 9. Make a pencil

mark on the handle, 1- or 2- below the top height

of the rim. Then, carefully push it straight down

into the salt. If a hard object is felt before the pencil mark gets to the top of the tank, it's most

likely a salt bridge. Carefully push into the

bridge in a few places to break it. Do not try to

break the salt bridge by pounding on the

outside of the salt tank. You may damage it.

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Broom Handle I- Salt

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