Hole in expansion tank

[Jim Baird]

12 yr old expansion tank has BB size hole in side that dribbles.

Why?

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[Tom Raymond]

Rust never sleeps.

[Richard Moore]

Hmmm, a BB size hole in anything in Georgia? Occam's razor would suggest some southern boy shot the damn thing with a BB gun.

But...probably just a small impurity in the sheet metal of that particular tank caused the pinhole leak. Or maybe they didn't flush the lines before installing it and some reactive debris came to rest at that spot of the innards. Whatever, it's gawn bad.

[John Kogel]

My mail order plastic BB machine gun would have riddled that tank like swiss cheese, not.

Air in pressure tank, raw steel always wet, a Niel Young song, Tom (and I) had the cassette. []

[Tim Maxwell]

I had one like that about a year ago. Unfortunately it was on a vacant town house and it ruined a bunch of wood flooring and drywall below it.

The inspection was postponed for three weeks due to the repairing/replacing and general drying out of the place...