T-connector for hot water heater
I have a Suburban Hot Water Heater. The T-Connector on the back is leaking. Now, I unscrewed it and put some pipe tape on there, but what I found out is that as you look at this picture, the end tha...
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mobeewan wrote:
Do you have a picture of the old tee by itself and the fitting connecting to the tank between the tank and tee by itself?
I don't have a picture of them separately no, but I have an update.
Basically, Flair-it no longer makes the part I need. So I took a trip to the local True Value Hardware Store, where the owner, who's family has nearly 100 years of experience, showed me the following:
And then on the other side of the tee a short piece of Pex going into the following:
Now, I had to get a new heating element because last night I fired mine up without enough water in it, but it was old anyway. I should hope to have this up and running tomorrow. Again, not using the above parts just yet, because I want to see if replacing the sanoprene seal and adding some pipe threading helped.
