From what I read, you can use someone experienced to help you out.
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16 years ago
Ok, so can I replace my own water heater?
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16 years ago
Can't you imagine? 50 pounds of water pressure agains 2 ounces of gas pressure? Everybody on the block with liquid-squirting pilot lights?
What a hoot!
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16 years ago
I'm a keyboard contractor. Designer colors only slightly more.
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16 years ago
I think that's how it is going to work out. Someone is supposed to help.
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16 years ago
I hear way too much stuff to keep track of all the details. That could be something from the Darwin Awards. I've recently read a lot of those.
Stupidity is often hard to believe, but it happens anyway.
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16 years ago
Interesting thought, but it would probably stop at the regulator.
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16 years ago
Especially considering that the lines have differences sizes and threads. You'd have to spend a few hours down at the local home depot looking through the wall of couplers and adapters to find the two or three adapters you have to tie together to adapt the gas line to a water in/outlet.
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16 years ago
What we have here...Is the failure to, COMMUNICATE!!
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16 years ago
Replaced the heater with a new unit. As it's not economical to install a new gas control on an old unit. Plus, there was other issues that needed to be addressed.
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16 years ago
Never dealt with gas pressure on a main line, Eh?
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16 years ago
Really???
Water inlet/outlet 3/4 NPT Gas connection 1/2 NPT
One little 1/2 - 3/4 bushing is all one needs...
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16 years ago
There ya go...
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16 years ago
No, never have.
Tell us about your experiences.
Please limit it to the last ten times.
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16 years ago
Kind of slow checking this group... but yes, I actually used the same stuff. Not dead (long pause) yet. Although by "same stuff", not sure what everyone has on their clothes dryer, so let me clarify. It is about 5 or 6" in diameter. Thin walls that look like thick tin-foil (or aluminum paper, whatever they call it these days). It has some wire inside the paper walls that wind around in a spiral fasion. If you have a length of it that is about 12 inches compressed, it will probably stretch out to several feet, it is kind of like a slinky... That is the same stuff they sold me when I bought a new gas clothes dryer -- I think that was at Best Buy.
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Are you using the slinky stuff for the chimney (flue, exhaust gasses) of a water heater? Hope not. It's not designed for that high a temperature. Please check with your local building codes department, or fire department.