Recent content by jamescodling

The fitting was definitely rubber, the corrosion was in the galvanized pipe. It appears the damage would have had to been pretty severe for this to have happened, i.e. cut all the way through the epoxy coating and galvanizing. I'm having a trusted gas plumber come by to quote it. The heater...

and fixing it.. ugh.. it's got a 1.5" IPS going into the main 2" line... the 1.5" risers are 40+ days to order. I can get a 1" or 2" quick. any advise on splicing IPS? use PVC glue?

I am guessing, and can only guess, is when it was installed the factory fitting was cut and it ensued to corrode over the years. Here is the outside pic before I pulled it apart. It surely was leaking gas. Odd thing was when I ran compressed air I was getting flow going both ways, but guessing...

Mystery solved. Once I got it completely dug out the riser came apart from the IPS without much trouble as it was corroded all way through. There is the problem!

About 15 years. We scoped it from the other way and it was yellow pipe, so guessing I'm going to find the iron riser transitions to plastic fairly shallow.

Haha.. Well he's 18 so maybe not technically a boy.. shipping off to the Navy in 4 weeks! Going to dig it up in the morning, I'll post what I find. This was the last thing I suspected. I should have listened to JamesW earlier!

I rented a miniflex cam that can scope down to a 3/4" line with 100 feet of cable. I started at heater and and right there at the riser it was completely shut off with corrosion, maybe a 1/4" opening but camera could not make it through. I went to meter side and ran scope 110 ft into pipe and...

Looks time to replace the bloody thing.. It's 1.5" and I need about a 100ft of video scope to reliabily see what's going on. The ones on Amazon are 50ft and don't think those types can make hard 90's. THanks all for the help. now time to return all these darned parts!

Used a leaf blower x 2 (gas and high powered electric) just too much restriction to be helpful. Then used a shop vac on either end. Had flow but hard to say if it was good flow as the distance is so long. I had 0 evidence of water. Calling that guy back out tomorrow. Clearly an issue in the...

Of course.. I have a high powered electric blower going to mate up and try today. After this it's getting prices for line replacement. It's not acting like a kinked line so hopeful this will push water out.

looks like my leaf blower at 400CFM will be the try for tomorrow!

I'm up for suggestions! Any thoughts on what to try?

about 200 ft.. it's opposite corner of a 1/2 acre property basically. I need to run that last check of checking the wc at the meter when the heater fires. The guy I had out claimed "flow was good" out of the meter but he didn't run that check. Everything else works fine except for the...