In alt.home.repair, on Mon, 15 Oct 2018 07:18:11 -0400, devnull
wrote:

On 10/14/2018 10:11 PM, wrote:
And for Whirlpool building in this odd ball feature to force you to get something that I couldn't even find on-line! NEVER WILL BUY WHIRLPOOL brand again!

My experience with Whirlpool products has been great and they are my
go-to company for appliance purchases but I do wonder WTF they were
thinking when they designed an oddball thermocouple fastener system.

Seriously, the design error is so ****ing stupid that I think some
engineer must have accidentally specified a left-hand thread and before
you know it the left-handed nut slipped into production.* Of course at
that point, what engineer wants to own that ****up.


Well I haven't seen what you're talking about but if the thread is right
hand at one end and left hand at the other, can't you just put it in
between the pipe and the water heater and turn it to tighten both ends
at once.

If both were right handed, wouldn't you have to eather rotate the pipe
or rotate the water heater and except in a house under construction the
pipe is attached to things.

So it doesn't seem stupid to me, and the only problem seems to be that
they haven't made enough of them or spread them out where you can find
one.