I was inspired to add a water heater drain after seeing several here at the SOC so I thought I would share the one I added. You can see the ones by kanyonkitty and JohnB on this page:
http://www.sunlineclub.com/forums/f6...tion-10105.htm and I am sure there are more.
First here are the parts I used.
I could not find the plastic fitting so I purchased the brass pipe nipple then found the plastic fitting for 89 cents at my local RV dealer a few days later. Unfortunately the plastic one leaked about one drip a minute. I don't know if it was because I had the threads wrapped with teflon tape but I ended up using the brass fitting, well wrapped with teflon.
The drain I had previously was also a brass one with threads wrapped with teflon tape that I put in when I replaced the tank in '04. That thing always needed a tap with the end of a wrench to open because it was right behind the gas line and I couldn't get my fat fingers back there.
That old brass one above came out easily, even after having been in there several years and the threads were clean and shiny! No reaction with the aluminum.
I was real carefull putting in the brass fitting to make sure it did not get cross threaded and strip the aluminum threads in the heater and only gave it about a 1/4 turn (or less!) with the wrench after it was hand tight.
Here is the final product.
It really makes it easy to drain the water heater now.
Much thanks to those that posted theirs earlier and gave me the idea.
Gene
{edit} Total for the parts at Lowes was just under $13.
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