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Gas Water Heater
I recently bought a house with a gas water heater and am getting odd
results. Sometimes, i have plenty of hot water, other times, i can only get luke warm water. It is not due to other sources of water consuption. The variablity holds true even when the dishwater, washining maching, etc. has not been in use (first thing in the morning, for instance). Is this normal for gas water heaters? What could cause this variable amount of hot water? Tim |
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no it shouldnt do that. try rotating the control all around both ways
stopping at a setting slightly higher than currently/ i had a old heater that did that occasionally must of been a bad thermostat. withing 6 months it was at the curb after springing a leak |
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Interesting aside: I recently put out a water heater for "heavy trash" pickup, but the urban faries beat the city to it. I guess they'll take it to a scrap metal salvage yard. Which is okay by me, re-use or reclaiming is better than dumping. I, too, make the rounds of the neighborhood the night before heavy-trash pickup. My prize score is a military 5-gallon jerry can. Excellent condition. What's nifty about it is the legend on the bottom: "3A - Sep 1944" Which I take to mean, 3rd Army, September 1944. I have a friend with a OLD original cast iron hot water heater in her basement. It MUST be a collectible its ornate and decorated but no longer in service |
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wrote in message oups.com... I recently bought a house with a gas water heater and am getting odd results. Sometimes, i have plenty of hot water, other times, i can only get luke warm water. It is not due to other sources of water consuption. The variablity holds true even when the dishwater, Does the thing still have the dip tube? It's a $5 plastic tube that goes inside the tank on the cold water side, carrying the cold water all the way to the bottom. Heat rises, and this helps separate the hot and cold water. You'll have to disconnect the cold water pipe at the top of the heater to find out. |
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There is a dip tube defect in water heaters from the early 90's:
"The water heater was manufactured between 1993 and 1996. The stamped-on code on the data plate should include the year." The company which made all the dip tubes was sold and the new owners changed the formula. http://www.ci.wilsonville.or.us/depa...er/diptube.htm The symptom is gel like goo or white particles on your aerator screens. Installing a new dip tube solves the problem. Richard Bob M. wrote: wrote in message oups.com... I recently bought a house with a gas water heater and am getting odd results. Sometimes, i have plenty of hot water, other times, i can only get luke warm water. It is not due to other sources of water consuption. The variablity holds true even when the dishwater, Does the thing still have the dip tube? It's a $5 plastic tube that goes inside the tank on the cold water side, carrying the cold water all the way to the bottom. Heat rises, and this helps separate the hot and cold water. You'll have to disconnect the cold water pipe at the top of the heater to find out. |
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There is a dip tube defect in water heaters from the early 90's:
"The water heater was manufactured between 1993 and 1996. The stamped-on code on the data plate should include the year." The company which made all the dip tubes was sold and the new owners changed the formula. http://www.ci.wilsonville.or.us/depa...er/diptube.htm The symptom is gel like goo or white particles on your aerator screens. Installing a new dip tube solves the problem. Richard Bob M. wrote: wrote in message oups.com... I recently bought a house with a gas water heater and am getting odd results. Sometimes, i have plenty of hot water, other times, i can only get luke warm water. It is not due to other sources of water consuption. The variablity holds true even when the dishwater, Does the thing still have the dip tube? It's a $5 plastic tube that goes inside the tank on the cold water side, carrying the cold water all the way to the bottom. Heat rises, and this helps separate the hot and cold water. You'll have to disconnect the cold water pipe at the top of the heater to find out. |
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Oh.. and drain all the goo out of the bottom of the tank, like gray jello. richard |
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