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Water heater goo

04-15-2005, 08:35 PM

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PLeavitt

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Water heater goo

I have a 4 year old 5th wheel that I live in full time and came across a problem with my water heater. A fitting broke coming off the water heater and I repaired it. The question I have is when draining the water out of the tank, alot of white goo came out. This stuff was soft and kind of like a paste. I have never drained out the tank but did find out that it should be done at least once a year. I have a 10 gal. Atwood with aluminum tank and in the past have noticed some harder chunks that block the faucet screens and have had to remove them to get full water flow again.Anyone know what this stuff is?

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