Hot water tank drain hole is stripped
My Rv has a Suburban hot water tank with an anode rod. It is getting difficult to screw the anode rod in and I belive the drain hole is starting to get stripped or cross threaded. Any suggestions? M...
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fj12ryder wrote:Dusty R wrote:I've tried this and you might as well bite the bullet and get/borrow a tap. It doesn't work very well. I was going to say it doesn't work at all, but it may have done something, just couldn't tell.
For cleaning female pipe threads you can take a short piece of pipe of the same size and cut 2 or 3 slots across the threads with a hack saw or cur off wheel in a side grinder. This will save the price of a tap.
I've done it- it works better if you heat the pipe very hot (like white hot), then quench in a bucket of water (some say sugar water).
