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Jim Wilkins Jim Wilkins is offline
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Default water heater element

On Oct 31, 2:17*am, Bruce L. Bergman
wrote:
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* And if it isn't the 1" pipe thread screw in style, get another
heater element - you'll play hell duplicating that four bolt flange.
And the elements are easier to get.

* *They sell adapters for going the other way - a four bolt flange
with the 1" threaded bung in the center.

* -- Bruce --


I found out the hard way that heater element threads are straight o-
ring (STOR) rather than tapered pipe (NPT). They may not even be
exactly STOR because they use a squared ring. At least the straight
thread was easier to cut on a lathe.