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    How to break down pressure relief valve from a water heater?

    I have a bunch of these and they give me brass breakage because of the spring inside. How do you remove all the guts from these?



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    I cut them in half with my cut off blade and the insides fall right out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by freonjoe View Post
    I cut them in half with my cut off blade and the insides fall right out.
    Sawzall makes short work of them.
    People may laugh at me, but that's ok. I laugh all the way to the bank.

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    I make a slit across the pressed in aluminum top then pop it out.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mick View Post
    Sawzall makes short work of them.
    No offence Mick but some of those springs inside are spring steel (hardend) and will kill a sawzall blade in a newyork second. The same goes for the brass valves on propane tanks.
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