[elky] Re: Fw: Non Elky Plumbing mystery
- From: "Rick Draganowski" <dragan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 10:28:56 -0800
No minerals here. Just very fine black silt. Good for potting soil.
My original 1980 model 80 gallon water heater had the plastic valve. The nice
plumbers broke it during installation and neglected to mention it. Never did
drain it but I did have to replace both elements over the 20 some year life. If
the tank is still sound (i have 120 psi natural water pressure from my spring
up the hill) I want to hook it into my shop air supply after I fix the thirty
year old compressor. Nothing seems to last.
Rick Draganowski
----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Adams
To: elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2010 7:10 AM
Subject: [elky] Re: Fw: Non Elky Plumbing mystery
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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