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protokatie:
If you let daywayne play your arcade cab for a day, maybe he will do it for free: considering how easy he makes it sound  ;D

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: myntik1 on January 04, 2009, 10:41:27 pm ---The only thing that scares me more than electricity and water is natural gas and fire. 

--- End quote ---

In other news he's only marginally terrified of earth and wind.   :)

Ed_McCarron:

--- Quote from: protokatie on January 04, 2009, 11:03:20 pm ---If you let daywayne play your arcade cab for a day, maybe he will do it for free: considering how easy he makes it sound  ;D

--- End quote ---

Its  honestly not tough; takes me about two hours to replace a gas hot water heater.

Helps if the pipe unions are in the right place.

lordtodd75:
Sorry about the confusion. I am actually talking about an oil boiler to heat my home. I had no idea it was as difficult and undoable as everyone is saying. I just thought pehaps someone could point me in the direction of some reading material to help me learn the ropes. It is very hard for me to pay $1000.00 to $2000.00 for 2 days worth of labor.

shardian:
I replaced my electric hot water heater. It was pretty easy. The only possible problem point is soldering skills.

Dawayne left out one important step in his soldering guide though - use the wire brush to clean both pieces being soldered. There is a special wire tool for standard 1/2" pipe that usually comes with the soldering kit you will buy anyways.

So.... clean/flux/heat until solder flows/solder are the basic steps. Oh, and take off the flame once solder starts to flow. That way the solder can be properly 'sweated' in.

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