so i am dabbling with an electric water heater... the ultimate answer here is that i need a new one but i want to try some things first in order to learn and i have some questions...
so i pulled the anode rod and the threads there were crusty. i got a 3/4 pipe thread tap. i asked a guy who said he was a plumber if a 3/4 plug would work as a thread chaser... he said it probably would. so i chased the threads with just the plug, put 6 passes of cheap homedepot teflon tape on the threads and let her rip.... she leaked. apparently either too much junk in the threads or the cheap tape is junk.
so then i cracked open the tap and got about 7 full turns into it before it started fighting me too hard... now i know its tapered and wasnt supposed to go in any further but i didnt realize that then (like i said, learning here)... so when i was backing the tap out i took a millimeter or so chunk out of the 2nd or 3rd thread from the top... the tap screws in/out fine now, but theres a millimeter chunk missing from that 2nd or 3rd thread. i havent tried sealing it yet. the guy at the hardware store said to try dope first but he said if its not too bad that i can try 'wicking' and he said i could potentially get a seal with wicking that i couldnt get with tape, dope, or a tape/dope combo...
i am just wondering if anyone has encountered something similar with slightly buggered threads and if you actually got it to work... does this sound like a job for wicking?? i had never even heard of wicking prior to today...
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