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Post# 1091075   9/28/2020 at 18:25 (1,305 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA)        

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Take it from Jinx...you can live modern, for less, with Gas.

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Post# 1091084 , Reply# 1   9/28/2020 at 20:13 (1,305 days old) by qsd-dan (West)        

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Glass lined water heaters were a major step backwards. Give me a Monel, please!

Post# 1091085 , Reply# 2   9/28/2020 at 20:21 (1,305 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O )        

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I'm going to take a stab at thinking these glass lined water heaters were fiberglass and not bottle type glass or were they?

Post# 1091090 , Reply# 3   9/28/2020 at 20:59 (1,305 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)        
Glass Lined Water Heaters

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Are just a porcelain finish inside, so it is real glass.

 

They were a big improvement over cheaper Was with a galvanized tank that rusted much more quickly.

 

Premium WHs were either solid Copper or as Dan mentioned Monel metal which is a high copper stainless steel type tank, either of these type WHs lasted almost for ever in addition to being more efficient at heating water.

 

John L.


Post# 1091091 , Reply# 4   9/28/2020 at 21:08 (1,305 days old) by appnut (TX)        

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That washer is the very early version of the new large tub DispensoMat Norge 14/15. TOL and it's the rare bird that has the filter system that's like a F-Flo with filter pan on the agitator. The water level was set to ex-low too, 2 pounds or less. This is the same exact model that's in the POD.

Post# 1091099 , Reply# 5   9/28/2020 at 21:43 (1,305 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O )        
John

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Geesh I'd forgot about porcelain as in the KA dishwashers of yore. Fiberglas struck me as when I had the flood two years ago and was reading up on a replacement there were some models with fiberglass tanks.

Post# 1091103 , Reply# 6   9/28/2020 at 22:56 (1,305 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine)        

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When I was a kid, we had an AO Smith gas water heater here, much older than the video one. Now I have my domestic hot water from my oil boiler. I remember seeing AO Smith huge silos in farming country.

Post# 1091109 , Reply# 7   9/28/2020 at 23:16 (1,305 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.)        

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A previous co-worker and long-time friend is a senior cost accountant at an A.O. Smith water heater manufacturing facility in Ashland City, TN.


Post# 1091191 , Reply# 8   9/29/2020 at 15:18 (1,304 days old) by CircleW (NE Cincinnati OH area)        

My dad's aunt and uncle's house (built in 1936) had a Monel water heater, but they replaced it with a Rheem electric sometime in the late 60's. I think the old one used oil, and they got a gas furnace at the same time, so no longer bought oil.

Post# 1091227 , Reply# 9   9/29/2020 at 21:14 (1,304 days old) by Supersuds (Knoxville, Tenn.)        

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Wonder how expensive a new Monel tank would be today?

Scrap pice is apparently $2.50 to 3.00 per pound.


Post# 1091243 , Reply# 10   9/29/2020 at 22:23 (1,304 days old) by robbinsandmyers (Conn)        
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That was very Ruud of you !!!


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