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Old 9/15/10, 11:22 PM
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Is there anything wrong with this particular connection? This is a water heater in a small utility closet in the garage.
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It's wrong. An appliance connector is to connect the appliance to the gas piping. It isn't to be used in lieu of gas piping. Here's a great article.


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Excellent find on that article, Joe.

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Definitely wrong as Joe mentioned. Looks like they used teflon on the connector which is wrong and using white teflon to gas pipe fitting is a no no as well. All around homeowner special.


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Joe.... Good information and thank you for responding so quickly
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