On 2007-08-28 23:39:42 +0100, Unix Guru said:

My Kinetico has a leaking cylinder (which could be replaced), a leaking
inlet/outlet manifold (ditto), the meter would occasionally stick, and
the unit would often fail to soften. I finally gave up on the unit when
the Kinetico engineer proved unable to fix the leak. I declined his
further services.

Perhaps I could buy the parts and fix the unit myself, but frankly it's
caused so much trouble I just want to dump it.

Given all of that, I don't think it's worth it.




One idea that does occur to me is to simply replace the Kinetico head
with a commodity valve/controller. Then I could re-use the good cylinder
and perhaps the enclosure too. But I need to research it more first.

I believe that they have their own fitting sizes etc. so probably not
worth doing this.

Given all of that, by the time you buy all the bits, you will have been
able to buy a new unit.