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<blockquote data-quote="NightShade" data-source="post: 2271832" data-attributes="member: 29706"><p>I remember taking apart one of the sand filters before. . . If I remember right the controls had a tube that went down to the bottom and that had a manifold with "fingers" radiating out where the water would go in to and then head back to the pool. Water would go in the top of the sand area during normal filtration and be pushed through the sand.</p><p></p><p>Even if the controls are goofed you should be able to disassemble them and set the control into a regular filter position and use the system as intended with your layers of carbon and sand. The one thing I would do is wrap the "fingers" in a cloth filter material and the bottom 1/3 of the filter would be carbon and the top 2/3 would be sand. Allowing the sand to capture as much of the initial as possible, then the carbon to remove the rest of the stuff. Still have to wonder about contaminants like bacteria and viruses etc but that would do pretty good to filter out metals and other contaminants. Since you have two filters you could go as far as to do a multi stage setup, running through one first and then the other. </p><p></p><p>After that my best guess is some pool chlorine tabs to sterilize, it sounds bad but when I worked on a pipe crew and installed water lines every junction had one tossed in. When they were flooded with water for the first time the tabs would help to super chlorinate the water and sterilize the lines since they had been exposed to air. I have no idea how long they took to fully dissolve but I can guarantee that people were drinking the water before the tabs were gone. Probably just set something up in line that would allow the water to flow over the chlorine tab and then pass to a holding tank after it is filtered. . . if you didn't mind wasting the carbon for absorbing the chlorine you could do that before it entered the filters to kill off the bacterial and viral contaminants.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NightShade, post: 2271832, member: 29706"] I remember taking apart one of the sand filters before. . . If I remember right the controls had a tube that went down to the bottom and that had a manifold with "fingers" radiating out where the water would go in to and then head back to the pool. Water would go in the top of the sand area during normal filtration and be pushed through the sand. Even if the controls are goofed you should be able to disassemble them and set the control into a regular filter position and use the system as intended with your layers of carbon and sand. The one thing I would do is wrap the "fingers" in a cloth filter material and the bottom 1/3 of the filter would be carbon and the top 2/3 would be sand. Allowing the sand to capture as much of the initial as possible, then the carbon to remove the rest of the stuff. Still have to wonder about contaminants like bacteria and viruses etc but that would do pretty good to filter out metals and other contaminants. Since you have two filters you could go as far as to do a multi stage setup, running through one first and then the other. After that my best guess is some pool chlorine tabs to sterilize, it sounds bad but when I worked on a pipe crew and installed water lines every junction had one tossed in. When they were flooded with water for the first time the tabs would help to super chlorinate the water and sterilize the lines since they had been exposed to air. I have no idea how long they took to fully dissolve but I can guarantee that people were drinking the water before the tabs were gone. Probably just set something up in line that would allow the water to flow over the chlorine tab and then pass to a holding tank after it is filtered. . . if you didn't mind wasting the carbon for absorbing the chlorine you could do that before it entered the filters to kill off the bacterial and viral contaminants. [/QUOTE]
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