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bhivetravels
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Jul 24, 2014

Broken plastic Atwood hot water heater drain plug

So a small leak turned into a complete drain. The plastic bolt on the bottom of the hot water heater was leaking. In an effort to clean the bolt and then wrap it with teflon tape and reinstall it, i...
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Teacher_s_Pet
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Jul 24, 2014
firemedic1992 wrote:
Suburban water heater should not have had a plastic plug in the first place. An anode rod would be in a Suburban WH, while plastic plug is in the Atwood WH.



The responder said the fitting he removed was in the "back" of the Atwood water heater, which would have made it a water inlet or outlet. Not the drain plug, but still a viable method of removal for a broken fitting or plug.

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