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Water heater installed. I finished the install kinda late. Resolving a couple of leaks in my plumbing work, that took much more time and effort. I still have a couple very minor slow drips dammit. But I have to work this morning, so, I'll get to them next time.

Hard line plumbing is tough. I guess with enough experience, getting it right the first time is more common, but I had to take apart some of my work more than once. VERY frustrating.

I think one of my problems was working with what's called a close. It's a kind of pipe nipple with threads on each end, and no unthreaded pipe in the middle. Tightening them... What to do? The only place to grip that piece is right on the threads. That seems like a good way to make it leak. And I had a regular four inch nipple to gate valve connection leak. That one is still leaking, but from dripdripdrip to one drip per 80 seconds. Endurable until next time.

Of course, cleaning up the water spilled from the removal of the pipes to get another shot at the leaks slowed things down a lot. And partway through a dropped my droplight and broke it. So the project was finished by flashlight.

Well, I did take lots of pictures, but as you might guess, they're on the camera, and this post is from my phone, so no pics... Yet.