Water Heaters - I got a biggin

Originally Posted by KzScrapper

Sorry SKW, I wasn't trying to argue...more of a BOLO for other ones you might come across.

The control box is the gas valve. Copper wire is a thermocouple that is by the pilot light and when it senses flame it produces a very small current to keep the small valve open for the pilot. There's also a stem that protrudes into the tank that when the temp drops below temp it will open the main valve to fire the burner...but only if the pilot has been verified the TC.

Modern day furnaces and boilers use a spark ignition or hot surface igniter but many water heaters still use a standing pilot.

I wasn't trying to argue either, thanks and I apologize too if you thought I was arguing - I sincerely appreciate your advise and expertise from your past and current posts on here. Thank you!

I still am very green at scrapping, I still feel like I play a scrapper on TV and am not a real one. Thanks for the BOLO.

My brother-in-law owns a construction company (has since he was a kid and he's older than me) and he picks fun at me (rightfully so) when I try and work on things in or on my house, so I admit to not knowing much about that type thing LOL



Speaking of water heaters, I could tell ya some embarrassing things that I did or nearly did when I was younger that involve a live gas pipe, a hack saw and the water heater in my mothers house but... I'll let it go. The good thing is that I don't have to say anything to get him back sometimes cause he doesn't know computers/networking very well, and when I fix something for him he gets pretty mad. "That was it? Man that makes me so mad" cause he had been trying to figure it out for hours and I fix it in less than 5 minutes depending on what it was.