I've used the same boiler for about almost a year now but the part where heats the water (at the bottom, looks like coiled metal) has this weird crust crusted around it...it seems like if i boiled more water, i could get cancer from this.....
Yea your heating element is covered with calicium or lime or some other hard water mineral. Either replace the element or try and clean the one you have now. YOU WONT GET CANCER FROM IT. Its just had water deposits. They occur in water heaters and boilers. This is a very common problem.
the substance sounds like lime your area where you live probably has hard water when the water heats and cools it leave a deposit of excess minerals which is probably lime
MinerAl deposits have to be on the inside of boilers. I assume you cant see the inside of your boiler? Also Most are either brass, copper-nickel, or cast iron or steel. The latter types of heat exchangers can have scale cake up on and in the burner area. However, getting cancer from I assume dringking HOT water? The item I have seen most often in water heaters is part of the heat exchanger or a flame spreader sepperate or flake and deteroriate but its not in the water. If you hear a spppiissshhh everynow then you have a crack and water is leaking out and causing this deteroation. As to Cancer... We are all going to get something and eventually we will die, no ones getten outa this world alive. But cancer from drinking hot water, steel or Iron I bet someone has a study that says you can and will die from it or be poisend by it, or get cancer. Now if you choose to believe them you will probably get something sometime or another but I dont think so. What ever happened to common sence, its so uncommon. And dont think Im trying to embrass you Im not. I find myself being shifted to those in the know all the time. But the more I hear from those people the more Im convienced they are educated beyond their inteligence. They have a bone to pick or a study to fund and a paycheck to make so they sacrifice truth and true science for power, a name for themselves and money. We just leave it up to others that we think they know more than we do about whats good for us and then they take the lead we give them. And it goes on and on and on. Before you kinow it no one wants to talk about possibly global warming being natural. Its always the progressive countries that are to blame and man has made this clamity. If God wants anyone to do anything it is seek the truth. And discuss it openly. I dont believe your going to get cancer from Iron or Iron compounds unless they are a natural irritant to your body, then maybe but not til then.
