Plumbing issue achieved. What gremlin cut my pipe?

My goodness... every room I've done I've abandoned as much wire as I could (MC cable with only hot and neutrals). Saying cloth wire gives me visions of "is this wire actually colored white for neutral? I don't see any paint, but it can't have two black wires... can it? What even is electricity anymore?" At least I got a ton of electrical tools out of it and a multimeter so there's no guessing. You got me on the screw in fuses... I had our panel replaced when we moved in. Your house sound(s/ed) identical to mine.

My yard has orangeburg drain pipe which apparently was only used for a handful of years so what joyous luck our house was built during then and the prior owner declined a replacement when the town came through and tore up the road to expose all the laterals... oh well, that's a problem for future me.

/thread derail, sorry all

 

Nice job

 

Someone beat me to it, but I was thinking about the weight of that pipe too. Was glad they gave you a heads up/warning before you started the job: serious (dangerous) weight there.

 

I;ve got a plumbing question.
I had to take the sacrificial anode out of a newly installed water heater. It's the holding tank for a solar water heat system. The thermosyphon action requires that I plumb the heat exchanger(glycol to water heat exchange) to the anode's hole in the top of the tank. This leaves no anode protection. The previous one lasted 15 years before any leakage happened (no electric power to the elements).

Is it possible to just cut up the anode it came with into pieces and drop them down inside, then closing up the system? Would their corrosion gunk up the bottom of the tank (I can drain it easily anytime)? The relief valve is on the top of the tank...I can de-pressurize and remove that to drop anode chunks into the tank. House water system has a softener if that makes any difference as to what anode material should be used.

Thoughts? Thanks.

 

I can't speak to ANY of the other stuff other than, what I am going to do when it's time to get rid of mine (it's in the basement with not enough space to full extract it) is take my rotary cut off tool, and while holding the rod with some vice grips, cut above the wrench and just do that in perpetuity until it's all cut out of the tank; pulling up little by little each time. Perhaps that is an option? Thankfully I'm already following this thread as I'm curious what others have to chime in with...

 

In my case the anode is already oout of the tank. I'm wondering about cutting it into pieces and dropping them into the tank for anode purposes. I've seen the chain type as replacements in basements as you describe.

 

Yep reading comprehension evaded me on that one

 

Off the wall question - is your anode and your tank drain on the same thread, or is there an easy adapter between the two? And can you drain the tank via pulling a plug, or do you need a hose connection?

 

Drain at the bottom, hose connection. Anode acess on the tank top. Relief valve on the top, give acess to drop pellets or chunks of cut up anode in the tank.
Just curious as to the corrosion of the anode. No power through the elements, haven't pulled the trigger yet.