Broke Hot Water Heater in Roca Azul
I should sample some of the ideas you gave me on my Tequila thread! Hot water heater has been leaking for a week but left it alone for fear of making it worse. It's worse. Had to go in and the elbo...
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Belgique wrote:
PS: lesson learned and a suggestion (even for US travels). Pick up an assortment of the brass Shark Bite fittings for your rig and a small length of PEX. It is cheap and take up no space. No crimp tool required. My Wnnie is 1/2". #6 extractor that Newman suggested saved the day for me because there was no way that sucker was coming out any other way.
That's a great suggestion! I carry an assortment of PEX stuff that's suitable for the piping in our RV, even in the US it sometimes isn't carried in some local hardware stores. Our neighbour at the RV resort we stay at had a leak in his almost new RV, the folks on the assembly line hadn't crimped the PEX clamps tight enough, a re-crimp with my PEX crimper solved the leak.
