Post AsUh7AaZtCSceNzEyu by weeniewawa@noauthority.social
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 (DIR) Post #AsUh77fQkhYlaZEZd2 by eriner@noauthority.social
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       Drippy McDripperson is no mo
       
 (DIR) Post #AsUh784xDnyarjAxPc by eriner@noauthority.social
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       I can only imagine how miserable modern life must be for people with no ability to repair things.I guess those people are just renters.
       
 (DIR) Post #AsUh79I6iO5kcoKyYK by eriner@noauthority.social
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       I genuinely wonder what percentage of heads-of-household can diagnose and perform this kind of trivial repair? I think this is a good test-case because it's a $20 fix, requires zero specialized tools, zero specialized knowledge, and can be done start to finish in ~3m.I'd bet optimistically that only half of HoH's can fix this. A combination of low IQ, apathy, "I can just call the plumber", and general lack of self-reliance explain it, but it still makes me sad.
       
 (DIR) Post #AsUh7AaZtCSceNzEyu by weeniewawa@noauthority.social
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       @eriner they would have bought a new water heater and paid a plumber to install it.  I am always shocked how much they pay for the whole job.
       
 (DIR) Post #AsUh7B2EEOZw28vK52 by eriner@noauthority.social
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       @weeniewawa I swapped the elements on both of my water heaters some time last year, and I guarantee that most people are not capable of doing that job despite it being comparably trivial.
       
 (DIR) Post #AsUh7BTWauPfOnh7cu by weeniewawa@noauthority.social
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       @eriner They would be asking "what is a sacrificial anode" The same people are proud of just calling someone to take care of that, saying "I got no time to do that" while sitting on the couch.
       
 (DIR) Post #AsUh7BonJpQWSle6mO by eriner@noauthority.social
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       @weeniewawa to be fair, replacing the anode is a HUGE bitch and I don't fault anyone who says "fuck that shit"
       
 (DIR) Post #AsUh7CAQ1QixXplNU8 by sj_zero@social.fbxl.net
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       You know, that gets me to thinking: Why have a sacrificial anode when they could just throw a 3V power supply in there and have it last forever?It's always got power, it's attached to the house...
       
 (DIR) Post #AsUj0TBCZSeSBp3Afo by weeniewawa@noauthority.social
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       @sj_zero @eriner would that work with any water types? Would harder water act differently?
       
 (DIR) Post #AsUj0TWpH3wtGtARNY by sj_zero@social.fbxl.net
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       It's the same mechanism, you're basically leapfrogging the galvanic series by putting something with a better potential for ions to chip away at instead of your iron. With a sacrificial anode you're basically making a battery, but you could just as easily use a power supply and do the same thing.Both forms of corrosion protection do behave differently depending on water type including water hardness.