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I'm thankful everyday about my learning in this thread about Aquastats. I love how that thing works. It was so cheap and easy to install myself. I sure wish I'd known about them a long time ago since I was stuck just using a timer on my recirculation pump. Thanks 😎👍

I don't know if I should try this myself. You've all given me a lot of help here, but still, I don't want it mess up if I don't do it right. What are the 2 sizes of fitting cleaning wire brushes for, to fit inside the pipe or around the outside or what?

I'm sorry if I end up just letting this go for now after you guys looked so many things up for me on You Tube and Amazon. I'll keep track of what you said and I wouldn't doubt that I'll be back with a question or 2 if I do start trying to learn soldering pipes with a torch. I can solder wires...

OK thanks 👍

I don't know yet. Sorry. We hope to sell this house sometime next year and I don't know what to do.

So, only about $87 total could get me going ($50 + $25 + $12) plus a bottle of propane & some pipe & straight pieces (sleeves?) that fit over it. That's not too bad at all. Less than even 1/4 of what I just paid Biard & Crockett here in Orange, California. I've got the time to learn since I'm...

What are you talking about? I don't understand.

How much of a torch would I need to solder these little copper pipes? If you wouldn't mind, could you give me Amazon links to what I'd need, including the solder & a striker, to do it? Darn, you've got me think now. I'd want to have one & know how to use it before I needed it when something was...

Not that it matters, but here's my photo of the stream shooting out of the pinhole. I guess I'm lucky that the pinhole wasn't inside the insulation since this way it just sprayed the water heater and ran down into the drip pan and we found it pretty soon after it started. Do they sell alarms...

I gave it some thought after you said "just buy a torch and ...". I know I could do it just by watching a few You Tube videos. Heck, I taught myself to arc weld back in the late '70s before the internet even existed. I didn't read anything either. I just messed around. I had a big lawn care...

You gotta wonder why people like him do junk like that. What's in it for them? Thanks though. At least I can stop worrying that I just didn't look hard enough. 👍

Did anyone else just get an email saying that akkeosflomdis had just replied to this question? I sure can't find a reply from anyone with that name here. What's totally weird is after many months of no problems, we just had a pinhole leak happen yesterday a few inches away from the recirculation...

Please be nice, dude. I'd never heard of these Aqua-stat things and my pump still had life left in it.

Homeowner update: had to have a new water heater installed and I had them use my Auqa-stat. Man do I love that thing. BTW, the guy wasn't too impressed with my having used that braided line down there. He said those are only to be used up at the top of the water heater. So, I have one that's...

Just an update for some dumb reason. The little tube of flexible corrugated copper tubing, that leads from the recirculating pump over to the base of the hot water heater, sprung a leak in it so I fixed it myself. For some unknown reason, the place that put this water heater in to replace the...

I'm so happy with how things work for us now. Thanks everyone for all the help on this long thread that started off with such an oddly worded Question. I might try to re-word it to make it more relevant but I don't know if this site will let me Delete any irrelevant Replies on the first 3 or 4...

My understanding is that these Grundfos Aqua-Stats keep the water pipe that it is sensing between 105° and 115° and that the timer only tells it whether or not you want it to do that based on the hours you have the timer set to turn it to ON, pretty much exactly like how a Christmas tree light...

My Grundfos recirc pump without a built-in timer was installed in 1993 when this tract was being built by Standard Pacific and we have used it trouble-free for the last 27 years. It had an external timer that had a battery backup in it, so that sounds good, right? Only this was some bogus old...

I wanted to come back and thank you guys for your help. I love how this Aqua-Stat has made things work. I'm going to add this timer in the power cord when it gets here so I can let the recirculation pump rest every night while we're all asleep. I had to get this goofy shaped timer since the...

Thanks but that's all way over my head. I'm not a plumber so the regulations don't really matter to me. 👍😃