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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Nick1911 on April 28, 2017, 06:26:04 PM
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Nonstandard left hand, multi lead threads on the thermocouple on 2000-2004 whirlpool water heaters
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That'll do it every time.
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Nuke it from orbit.
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Plastic bottles that tip over when they're near empty and the CG goes uppity-way-up and the bottle goes downity-down-down.
Band-Aid wrappers.
Containers where products cannot be fully used on the philosophy that "We don't care how much you use, we only care how much you buy."
Containers with double-pitch threads. Like the thermocouples. But I'm getting used to that. The containers, not the thermocouples.
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I've worked out why they did it this way.
This thermocouple has a high limit fuse built into it.
I suspect that it was mandated that all water heaters needed to have one of these high limit fuses somewhere. Whirlpools answer was to include it intrinsic to the thermocouple. Probably not actually a bad idea - they could use a cheap, non-resettable fuse, and incorporate it into a commonly consumable part.
But, they couldn't allow someone to put in a non-fused thermocouple, as this would bypass the safety feature. So they changed the threads.
A few years pass by, and the rest of the manufactures have done it a different way, exposing leads from the gas valve for an externally mounted safety switch. Whirlpool adopted this more standard approach as the years passed by.
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The adjectives I could use for whirlpool engineer's are not allowed here.
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Comcast/Xfinity!
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The adjectives I could use for whirlpool engineer's are not allowed here.
Comcast/Xfinity!
Whirlpool's engineers might be bad, but calling them that's going too far.
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One of the regional managers sons worked for me I have talked to several of their engineers I was being nice.
I can do component level repair there answer to fix something is replace everything if that don't work it's the customers fault.
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Cable pass through/Attachment? Too short to be an adjustor.
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Just a groovy bolt.
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Cable pass through/Attachment? Too short to be an adjustor.
Cable pass through. The thermocouples have a formed end on them.