Atwood water heater drain plug tightening

Missionstreet wrote:

Dutch_12078 wrote:
Just a tip: If you need a new drain plug for a Dometic/Atwood water heater and there's no RV shop handy, a CPVC plug from a hardware/big box store will work fine as a substitute.

Oh, and another tip: Always buy two plugs and store one right in the water heater cabinet. Otherwise you'll never remember where you put it when you need it. ;)

It seems like whatever I REALLY need is never available ?? in a "store"

I could not find cpvc in this fitting size at the big box!

^^^THIS^^^

Man, where is the "like" button?

Needed a fitting while camping out of town once, visited every single big box store I could find and not once could I find what used to be a standard stocked fitting.. Started fitting a whole bunch of different fittings together in the stores but still was not able to make it work..

Wasted a lot of camping time, a lot of fuel and a lot of brain cells and finally resolved myself to the fact that I would need to continue camping without water to my toilet for the rest of the week until I was able to go home and order the correct piece needed from Amazon..

Retail stores have removed pretty much anything the computer system deems as "slow moving" from inventory. If it sits on the shelf too long, it no longer gets reordered after the last part sells.

Often takes visits to both Home Depot and Lowes in order to get most of the parts needed to do a project but there almost always is one or two items that both stores do not carry.. A very sad state of affairs..