"Trail Blazer" wrote in message
oups.com...
My gas hot water heater is 25yrs. old and works fine but looks its age
with a little rust around the bottom, should I replace it soon or wait
until it actually fails. How dangerous is it?


Water heater tanks only fail after the sacrificial anode is eaten away. To
check pull out the anode.

You can get instructions he
http://waterheaterrescue.com/


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Roger Shoaf
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