| Stainless water heater tank? [message #76412] |
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Matt Colie
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Registered: March 2007
Location: S.E. Michigan
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For those that don't know, I have a '73 23' that was well maintained by at least two prior owners (I am grateful).
I have never looked at the sacrificial anode that has not been looked at in at least four years and does not show up in any of the legible receipts that are in the coach's file. I began to worry about it.
Yesterday I crawled into the head and took apart the cabinet under the sink so I could actually get arms in where the waterheater lives. There was some concern that I might discover something that I really didn't want to know, but with the coach in the barn until enough warm rain washes the salt off the roads, this would be as good a time as any to find out. I looked and I searched and even took off the cover and got a mirror and a flashlight and never found the separate plug indicated in some manuals that would carry an anode.
I never found any.
What I did find was a very shiny tank. After extricating my body and retrieving a magnet-on-a-stick tool from the box, I confirmed what the shiny tank had made me suspect. The tank is a non-magnetic alloy. It could be something else, but it sure does look like a good stainless steel to me. The unit case is galvanized and shows its age.
There is no way that I have any clue how many coaches have this feature. The unit appears to have been remounted at some point. It does have an Atwood tag.
Matt
Matt & Mary Colie - Chaumière -'73 Glacier 23 - Members GMCMI, GMCGL, GMCES
Electronically Controlled Quiet Engine Cooling Fan with OE Rear Drum Brakes with Applied Control Arms
SE Michigan - Near DTW - Twixt A2 and Detroit
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