On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:02:22 -0500, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:35:21 -0600, Steve Barker
wrote:


All these nay sayers must be water heater salesmen. LMAO! The damn dip
tubes are flexible. No overhead needed to replace. If it's REALLY
REALLY tight against something, just drill a hole and drop it through
it. duh.


But the biggest problems is getting out the tube breaking a 17 year old
fitting. You do a job like that leaving enough time to go buy and
install a new unit when the corroded threads give way. Or worse.

Agreed. Our (electric) tank is also 17 years old (maybe 16) - I had 6ft
of breaker bar on the bottom element trying to remove it last year and
there's no way it's coming out, and the drain valve (a plastic-bodied
piece of sh*t) is also stuck and I expect won't come out without breaking
(I wanted to replace it with something that wasn't designed by a 5 year
old)

cheers

Jules