Acampingwewillgo wrote:
Just a thought also...I know my water heater has a pressure release valve on the same side of the MH as the water fill....just wondering if you could use that as your source of Hot water for mixing?
You shouldn't be messing with the relief valve. It is there for a specific job, not for a source of hot water or to aid in draining the tank. Sediment in the tank winds up in the sink faucet aerators and slows the flow resulting in the aerators needing to be cleaned periodically (the white and sandy looking sediment). You could get some of the same sediment caught in the relief valve seat causing it to drip. There are a lot of posts here about both dripping relief valves and using them to flush and drain the water heater. I doubt all the dripping relief valves are due to loosing the air bubble in the top of the water hater. It's a safety relief valve not a globe valve.
