Tonight I add salt to my non SWG above ground pool

[The Raddish]

I can think of no reasons not to add salt to your Intex pool, especially at the low levels that we have been discussing in this thread.

[matt4x4]

Well, I have to try this, I understand that most concerns lie with corrosion, especially the bottom track, let me assure you that the NaCl levels in that track will NEVER reach a high amount such as 35000ppm where it may start to cause a problem unless your pool sits in the middle of the Sahara desert, sure, over the course of the weekend, it may build up a little bit, but the first rain storm will wash 90 % of that salt away.
I won't even worry about any of that since my pool is composed entirely of resin except for the wall and that's so coated you could probably immerse it in 999999 ppm salt and still not have much of an effect on it. As I understand it, most want to get to 1200- 1500 ppm salt, in this case, I'm looking at 250-300lbs of salt which is nuts, so I will be doing this over a loooong period of time.
Oh, also, WRT corrosion, I think everyone who is so concerned should probably be more worried about the alkalinity in the soil that their pool sits on since it will likely be the leading cause of the bottom rail rotting out.

[day1]

We did this about 3 weeks ago and the water does feel better. We have pretty hard water in the DFW area, so it really depends on your water quality if you want to do it. I only put 80# in, but it has a very slight salt taste and I don't feel like I need to jump in the shower right after a swim.

[waterbear]

The guys at Leslies are mostly clueless based on some of the posts in another thread about the way they test for CYA!