Can I haul a new water heater home on its side?

[Uncle Monster]

Wuts a "how" water heater? Is it an American Indian water heater? Perhaps it's a water heater that explains what it's doing?

[8~{} Uncle Monster

[Harry L]

[snip]

What it is, is the spell checker. It doesn't know when a 'w' is really a 't'. People usually seem to figure those out, considering context. Software can't.

[Uncle Monster]

Oh eye get it, a spiel chequer pogrom malefactor. Eye understate know.

[8~{} Uncle Monster

[mm]

In separate years, I've taken two home on the trunk and lowered top of my LeBaron.

The Sears ones don't claim to be glass lined, and they only have a translucent whitish vinyl liner. So it's not going to break, but that's not any more likely on the side versus the bottom.

I've also carried on separate occasions two spinet pianos on the lowered top and trunk when I had a full size convertible. I put a double bed mattress on the trunk and I go very slow, 5 or 10 mph where there are chuckholes.

Some readers here might remember that my WH top was caved in a half inch or more, and one of the pipes was no longer exactly vertical, but I installed it anyhow last winter and so far so good.

Especially since there is a vinyl liner and no glass liner, I don't expect any shortening of the WH life.

[Mike H]

replying to J. Clarke, Mike H wrote: Your compressor was probably oil filled. Do not lay a gas water heater with controls on the bottom. Damage will occur. The rest if the rest is for warehouse dummies.

[Reverend Harry Hardwick]

Did you make a wrong turn in your DeLorean and land on August 21, 2008, 3:49 pm?

[mattswagj]

OK, Im loving the replies here. Mark, will you be here all week? lol

[Reverend Harry Hardwick]

Did you make a wrong turn in your DeLorean and land on September 14, 2018, 12:41 pm?

[robert.r.riggins.jr]

Everybodys a comedian nowadays.

[LittleJR]

replying to Blattus Slafaly, LittleJR wrote: Or more correctly, Hot water doesn't need TO BE heated.

[fullofcupcakes]

I think the preheated water has cooled by now so it has contracted leaving a vacuum to suck the glass away from the cast iron. That should protect the water.

[Dan Espen]

You may or may not know this, but most of the posts on homeowners hub are actually from Usenet.

On Usenet, we don't see old posts, only the most recent replies. The post you just replied to is 12 years old. Please check the dates and if you feel you must reply, please include the original post in your reply.

Better yet, get a Usenet account. You can do this for free.

[Tekkie©]

On Tue, 19 Jan 2021 14:33:19 -0500, Dan Espen posted for all of us to digest...

Good luck with that Dan. I tried this a couple of years ago but got hate posts. Maybe copy your post for reposting. I think homemoaners hubless will ban you.

[Dan Espen]

LOL.

In your honor, I created a "homemoaners" file and copy pasted that text into it.

[micky]

That works okay, but it's best to freeze the water in the water heater so it doesn't jostle around when transported. You can take it to a wholesale meat market or a similar place and they'll freeze it for you.

[Tekkie©]

On Tue, 19 Jan 2021 16:21:01 -0500, Dan Espen posted for all of us to digest...

Thank you for the honor. Apply it as needed.

[Tekkie©]

On Tue, 19 Jan 2021 22:10:28 -0500, micky posted for all of us to digest...

Cmon, man it's a hot water heater. Not a water cooler, get with the program.

[Jim Joyce]

Better yet, it's just a water heater. If the water was already hot, you wouldn't need a heater.

I'll show myself out. :-)

[Godis Mytower]

Thank you so much! Im, so glad I found your post, or I would have lost all my factory installed water!

[TimR]

Seriously?

You're going to revive a decades old thread, and miss the mandatory standard argument?

It's lined with window glass, if you tip it it might crack.

No way, it;s fiberglas, that;s what glass lined means.

No you;re a dummy. No you;re the dummy. Tec.