| hot water heater [message #250553] |
Sat, 24 May 2014 17:44  |
tgeiger
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Pulled the old hot water tank out...but I'm not a plumber. I've been trying to get the brass coupling off the tank but they seem to be stuck. I've tried with a pipe wrench but dosn't want to turn. I still have the blue end pieces on. The piping side around these brass pipes have a coller clip around them that seems to prevent the blue saddle piece from coming off. Any ideas of how I get these off?
Tom Geiger
76 Eleganza II
KCMO
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| Re: hot water heater [message #250563 is a reply to message #250553] |
Sat, 24 May 2014 20:39  |
tgeiger
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ok, got a little primative with it and got it off...onto the new stainless steel tank...
Tom Geiger
76 Eleganza II
KCMO
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| Re: hot water heater [message #250628 is a reply to message #250563] |
Sun, 25 May 2014 22:13 |
midlf
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tgeiger wrote on Sat, 24 May 2014 20:39ok, got a little primative with it and got it off...onto the new stainless steel tank...
Yeah sometimes ya just gotta get a bigger wrench or a BFH.
Steve Southworth
1974 Glacier TZE064V100150 (for workin on)
1975 Transmode TZE365V100394 (parts & spares)
Palmyra WI
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| Re: hot water heater [message #250702 is a reply to message #250553] |
Tue, 27 May 2014 07:43 |
mickey szilagyi
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We had a similar problem getting the old anode out of our hot water tank. We sprayed it for several weeks with PB Blaster and still nothing. We reefed on it with every hand tool we had. Finally we resorted to the impact wrench. We went at it with short bursts and after a few minutes it finally budged and came off. Side note on the anode, it was completely gone. We also had a problem with an air fitting the PO had installed on the city water inlet. We couldn't get that off either so we carefully used the impact wrench on that and it worked. Gotta think a little outside the box some times.
Mickey
1977 Kingsley, 403, Lansing, MI
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