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rvbikeguy
Explorer
Nov 21, 2015

Broken water heater plug

While removing the plastic plug to drain my water heater, the head of the old plug broke off, leaving most of the threads in the hole. Does anyone have a suggestion how to remove the old plug stub so I can install a new brass plug? Access is difficult (as seems to be the preferred design with RV water heaters). Thanks.

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    old_guy
    Explorer
    Nov 21, 2015
    one way is to heat a blade screw driver with torch and shove it into the plastic and turn the plug out. some on here may have other ways to do it.

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