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Country_RVer
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Jul 03, 2016

country water / anode / Suburban / smelly water ?'n

Hi, we stored our Travel Trailer (Suburban 10 gal water tank) for 2 years and am now camping with it, have had it set up about 6 weeks. We're in a private campground that has a well. The cold wa...
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Dusty_R
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Jul 04, 2016
I've installed a few water heaters. In this area I remove the anode rod.
In 1980, give or take a year or so, I installed an oil gun fired AO Smith water heater in our home. Then a year later I replaced the oil gun with an LP gun. I did remove the anode rod when I installed the water heater.
We moved out of that home in the fall of 2012, and sold that home last fall, 2015, and that water heater is still working just fine. There is a water softener there also.

Dusty

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