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[Zombie Steve]

You don't HAVE to have it, but a short hose gives you easy access to the 40-50 gallons of water in your water heater.

[Wulf202]

You don't HAVE to have it, but a short hose gives you easy access to the 40-50 gallons of water in your water heater.

Yeah? Try it sometime. You'll probly jam up the spigot with the calcium and trash at the bottom of the tank.

Get a pipe wrench and a small tube so you can siphon from the top.

[jerrymrc]

You had talked about heat. Take a look here. http://www.ar-15.co/threads/19976-Th...ighting-thread Yes Aladdin's are not cheap but one will heat a room. Also for cheaper a few wick type lanterns will help with light and heat. I am a fan of LED's for summer use.

[zzzippper]

I looked for these on Amazon and came up with a bunch of brass Genie type brass things. Are you talking about what we used to call hurricane lamps with wicks that run on oil? I don't remember them being that hot.

You had talked about heat. Take a look here. http://www.ar-15.co/threads/19976-Th...ighting-thread Yes Aladdin's are not cheap but one will heat a room. Also for cheaper a few wick type lanterns will help with light and heat. I am a fan of LED's for summer use.

[StagLefty]

I looked for these on Amazon and came up with a bunch of brass Genie type brass things. Are you talking about what we used to call hurricane lamps with wicks that run on oil? I don't remember them being that hot.

Even your regular Coleman lanterns throw a lot of heat-I used to heat my tent up in the mornings during hunting season with one.

[jerrymrc]

I looked for these on Amazon and came up with a bunch of brass Genie type brass things. Are you talking about what we used to call hurricane lamps with wicks that run on oil? I don't remember them being that hot.

Aladdin lamps put out light of a 60W bulb and are good for 2500-2800 BTU. And they are safe compared to a coleman. They use a mantle and if you look at my link there are pictures between them and a wick type hurricane lamp. Way back when we had the power go out one night. The upstairs was 68 and it was like 20 outside. 3 hours later it was 15 or so outside and the upstairs was 70.

That was with 2 lamps and our place was lit just fine. The neighbors asked the next day if I had a generator because the living room looked normal. I have used one in the camper as well when I used to camp in the fall. I keep 15gl of K1 on hand for them. They are the brightest non pressurized lamps available.

I also am prone to using them in the winter to read by. No they are not cheap but one does find a deal now and then. I keep spares and even have an extra lamp. My two lamps.

[68Charger]

Yeah? Try it sometime. You'll probly jam up the spigot with the calcium and trash at the bottom of the tank.

Get a pipe wrench and a small tube so you can siphon from the top.

Depends on the hardness of your water- my water is so hard that I have a water softener, so I HAVE tried this and it's clear, because the WH only sees softened water.
But the water softener has it's own issues- I need to keep salt on hand for it to work.

but living here has it's own challenges, I have access to unlimited water, as long as I have power... so I need generator and fuel- then I have water. even just running it 5 minutes will fill my pressure tank in the house with 50gal of water.

[Zombie Steve]

Yeah? Try it sometime. You'll probly jam up the spigot with the calcium and trash at the bottom of the tank.

Get a pipe wrench and a small tube so you can siphon from the top.

Am I the only guy that drains the water heater once a year to get the sediment out?

[Great-Kazoo]

Am I the only guy that drains the water heater once a year to get the sediment out?

Probably we do it bi-annually, every 6 months for the layman.

[Wulf202]

Am I the only guy that drains the water heater once a year to get the sediment out?

You're one of the few but it doesn't stop sediment and flushing it won't get 100% of it.