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Sabluka
Explorer
May 21, 2015

Water Heater drain plug head broke off..Remove Advice

Atwood 6-gal drain plug head broke off. Orig that came with the MW presume. 2000 yr RV. Tryin to out how to get the threaded portion out. No water in the RV till I do. How about putting a drill ...
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ksg5000
Explorer
May 21, 2015
When I had same issue the various extractors didn't work for me .. I ended up using a small torch which melted the plastic plug allowing me to use a tiny pic to remove the residual off the threads ... most seem to get the plug out with extractors.

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