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Products with the bad flusher include toilets from Home Depot and Lowes,
and those made from 1997-2008 by "American Standard, Crane, Kohler,
Eljer, Mansfield, St. Thomas and Gerber."

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On Friday, August 17, 2012 4:50:51 PM UTC-7, Red Green wrote:
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/...--finance.html





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Products with the bad flusher include toilets from Home Depot and Lowes,

and those made from 1997-2008 by "American Standard, Crane, Kohler,

Eljer, Mansfield, St. Thomas and Gerber."



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The question everybody should be asking is:

The part that is exploding is the pressure vessel

https://www.google.com/search?num=10...shmate%2 0III

which is basically an expansion tank


https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...E-GXyAGptoCwBw


and is subject to the same pressures and stresses. So then how is it that one is always made of plastic and the other is always made of steel?









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On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 23:50:51 +0000 (UTC), Red Green
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Products with the bad flusher include toilets from Home Depot and Lowes,
and those made from 1997-2008 by "American Standard, Crane, Kohler,
Eljer, Mansfield, St. Thomas and Gerber."


Toilets have serial numbers? Who knew...

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