Properly used, chlorine bleach is perfectly safe for shock treating aluminum water tanks. It does have to be thoroughly rinsed from the tanks after doing so. It does not sound like the PO was doing that properly. Some municipalities use enough chlorine in their drinking water treatment to be a problem as well. That would just compound the problem of shock treating the tanks.
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Originally Posted by sorcerer33
SailingDog: The area I'm in has a previous owner who told me he had flushed the tanks of my boat and left bleach in the tanks to shock them. He succeeded in shocking me too. I'm afraid this was his way of freshening up his tanks - a method that I will not be using in the future.
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You know what the first rule of sailing is? ...Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse, but you take
a boat to the sea you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps
her going when she oughta fall down, tells you she's hurting 'fore she keens. Makes her a home.
—Cpt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity (edited)
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