[elky] Re: Fw: Non Elky Plumbing mystery
- From: Robert Adams <elcam84@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 09:10:53 -0600
Yup. Most have the cheap plastic valve and knob. It's made
hard to grip to keep people from over tightening it. I don't drain water
heaters anymore cause nothing comes out. If I want to flush it I take the
lower heating element out and then I can get in with a stick tool and break
up the minerals and suck them out with a shop vac.
Oh and drain it when hot and then after empty open the
inlet valve back up.
Robert Adams
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 3:37 AM, Rick Draganowski <dragan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
> On my high-tech well advertised and incredibly overpriced twentyfirst
> century electric water heater there is a drain valve at the bottom as there
> should be.
>
> But it is alien to me. I have never seen the likes of this amazing brass
> what-ever-you-call-it-thingie before.
>
> Is is merely a screwdriver operated faucet? And if so why? Why would such a
> thing even exist? What is going on? Will Rod Serling step from behind the
> curtain?
>
> Here are some pictures I took while standing on my head and feeling a bit
> sick to my stomach. Sorry about the poor quality as I could not see what I
> was doing at all. It was point and hope time.
>
> It is past time to drain my water heater and I wonder if there may be a
> nasty gotcha associated with this bizarre brass manifestation of some form
> of engineering I am not familiar with. Klingon perhaps? Too brutal looking
> to be Romulan.
>
> Rick Draganowski
> (Doubtful in Oregon)
>
>
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