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    Posted: 07 Nov 2018 at 5:29pm
Originally posted by lostagain

You may want to keep an eye on your tank for pinhole leaks.

Yeah, I'm on pins and needles!  Confused

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As I recall they are porcelain lined steel, we use to make smokers out of porcelain lined water heaters.
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Maybe they pawned the zinc in Las Vegas.  Hopefully, this condition was not long standing.  You may want to keep an eye on your tank for pinhole leaks.  We don't want any unexpected floods cascading down from VC to Dayton.  

We try to stick with nice Sierra snow runoff water when we fill our tank.  We're starting the third year with the anode I installed when we got the trailer and it still looks like new.  I just took it out when I replaced the heating element that had been destroyed likely long ago.  It looked like what I would have expected for our anode.  
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Could also mean the water used was acidic or base to a greater than "normal" amount.
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Or a high Sulphur content.
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Originally posted by 4Papa

I did find it interesting when removing the anode rod and rinsing WH interior to find so much crud in a one-year old camper with barely 2 seasons of use.

We bought a late 2016 camper supposedly light use.  I unscrewed the anode rod, and there was no rod, just the bolt nut.  Not a lot of junk coming out, but no rod.  I was surprised by that. They were from southern Nevada - maybe they used a lot of softened water.

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Not sure either as I did open and drain them before drawing in the AF step.  Wasn't much, less than an once.
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The amount of crud in HW tank is highly dependable on the water you are using. Anode is working.

Not sure how you got AF out of low point drains - they should have been opened and drained before AF was added.
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Did relieve pressure via WH pressure relief valve, so no projectile incident.  I did find it interesting when removing the anode rod and rinsing WH interior to find so much crud in a one-year old camper with barely 2 seasons of use.  Plus, the camper is usually filled 2/3 full before leaving on trips with water that's filtered and softened.   

I did get a nice spray bath of anti-freeze when unscrewing the two lower drain caps to drain.  Not sure where I went wrong but I knew I skewed a step when I used almost 2 gallons of fluid when others talk about using barely a half-quart.  Well, I guess better to use too much than not enough.
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