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Originally Posted by AzNightmare
One of these connectors on my water heater look like it rusted and broke.
Does anyone know what these kind of connectors are called or have a link where I can buy them? It looks simple enough to DIY fix, but I don't know what to look for. I tried googling but all these different types of pipe/tube connectors pop up. It looks like it's a threaded nut on one side, and you crimp the other end onto the tube.
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I'm not a plumber, but the red pipe is called, "Pex".
You will need a small amount of Pex tubing to join the existing tube (unless you replace the entire pex tube, this will be cleaner job as you don't have to join two pex tubes) to the water heater via a connector and you would probably want to replace that rusted out connector valve with a new one. That copper ring on the pex is what you need to "crimp"
Unthread the copper fitting and take it to home depot and just ask them for another one.
The crimper tool to crimp the pex is around $50 + materials, you're probably looking at $100 total?
If you don't want to crimp, you can use fittings called Shark Bite, but many real plumbers don't recommend that, but shark bite guarantees it. With shark bite fittings you don't need to crimp.