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Assess Condition of Plumbing Fittings and Attempt Disassembly

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63 year old water heater is 53 years past it’s shelf life. 🤯 #diy

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What happens here

The video shows an attempt to manipulate one of the heavily calcified fittings at the top of the water heater. Due to extreme corrosion and degradation, the metal fitting immediately breaks off when pressure is applied with a wrench. This highlights how severe neglect can render basic maintenance or even simple interaction with components impossible without causing further damage. This type of failure would extend to a drain valve if similarly corroded, making sediment removal impossible and necessitating replacement rather than cleaning.

Goal: Evaluate the integrity of plumbing fittings, particularly those related to water connections, and attempt to interact with them to gauge their functional state, being prepared for potential failure due to corrosion.

Tools and materials

  • Adjustable Wrench
  • Pipe Wrench
  • Protective Gloves
  • Safety Glasses

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This, ladies and gentlemen, is my electric water heater. It's completely rusted at the bottom. All these fittings here are all calcified or whatever that is. Oh my goodness. That's just metal just broke off. How much damage does this metal pipe have to go through in order for it just to break off like that? Oh, look at this thing. Getting this thing out of the dungeon finally.

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