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rgolding
Explorer
Oct 06, 2013

Why Do Water Heater Anoides Deteriorate So FAST?

Obviously, I've been thinking about zincs. During my replacement of the heating element and subsequent questions about water heater zinc anoides, I got to wondering. See other post if you need...
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Old-Biscuit
Explorer III
Oct 08, 2013
mlts22 wrote:
The anode rod on my rig was 99% intact when I yanked it out, although it had a coating of white calcium on it that had to be scraped off. Since my rig has sat for most of the year (with me coming by to check things every month or so), I'll probably just reuse the same rod after rinsing it off.


Aluminum type anode rods can get a build up on them......just scrape it off and reuse.
No need to replace an anode rod until 75% of material has deteriorated

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