cooler coolant?

[WILD BILL]

If automotive antifreeze is not recommended, how is RV antifreeze different? Is it used in an rv for something other than cooling the engine? (Preventing drains from freezing...?)

Yes, it's the pink stuff that is used to keep the water lines from freezing not the kind you put into the radiator.

You can find it at just about any RV dealer, some Walmarts, and sometimes Sears.

[Tritium]

If automotive antifreeze is not recommended, how is RV antifreeze different? Is it used in an rv for something other than cooling the engine? (Preventing drains from freezing...?)

Auto antifreeze will kill you very painfully while RV antifreeze generally will not. RV antifreze used to be an ingredient in DR. Pepper in the "good old days". It is used to freeze proof the potable water systems in an RV for off season storage.

Thurmond

[DaveO]

Fresca contains something called "glycerol ester of wood rosin", which doesn't sound too appetizing either.

So the idea is to mix RV antifreeze into the drinking water systems? Seems like it would be easier to install a drain valve at the lowest part of the system, and just drain it when the weather gets cold. But that would prevent winter travelers from doing the RV thing the rest of the year, wouldn't it.

[performance]

We are the kidney stone capital of the United states. Very common. Its a function of genetics as well. But a good friend of mine just had several he could not pass, and after the broke them up he was still passing BB sized ones, and they went in to take out much larger pieces. Thumbnail size stones are common for many people.

[DaveO]

Genetics? Yikes, more good news from the gene pool. My Dad had kidney stones and they used a lithotripter on him to break up the stones. I've heard passing stones is tremendously painful but we never heard a peep out of him... either too proud or too stubborn to complain, I guess.

[Wookie]

If automotive antifreeze is not recommended, how is RV antifreeze different? Is it used in an rv for something other than cooling the engine? (Preventing drains from freezing...?)

its used in the water system not the motor

like this
http://www.ruralking.com/rv-antifree...36373730303335