Side arm plumbing

[fabguy01]

Hooking up a side arm to my system going from the relief port to the drain port. Problem is that the drain has a goofy valve on it that I tried to remove but I think it is built into the hot water heater. It's not a ball or gate valve but you twist the whole thing. I think that I can get a hose to NPT adapter and just open the valve and plumb it. Any thoughts?

 

[Tony H]

If it's like the one I have seen you have to remove the whole valve then connect with standard threaded pipe and add the second connection for the side arm then reuse the goofy valve or add a more standard drain into the pipe and your good. The other idea like you were thinking should work ok even if it's slightly lower flow but I would check and see if you can remove it first. Check the mfg website and see if they have a diagram of the fitting it would seem it should be a replaceable part but you never know any more/

 

[leaddog]

Most of these are plastic but you can take them out and replace with a 3/4 pipe nipple. Some come out hard but they do come out.
leaddog

 

[Stlshrk]

some pics of my sidearm. Purchased from Cozy Heat.

 

[Stlshrk]

More pics. The bottom vlave was purchased from Lowes and allows for you to still have a drain for the hot water heater, if needed.

 

[fabguy01]

thanks for the pic's . I got mine fixed. leaddog was correct the plastic piece was removeable but it was pretty tight and i dident want to break anything over the weekend when i couldent get parts