Sharon Fink of Overland Park, Kan ., had a dip tube replaced on an A . O . Smith water heater last fall.
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Roger Peugeot, owner of Roger the Plumber in Johnson County, said he had replaced or repaired 300 water heaters with disintegrating dip tubes.
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In addition, a water heater becomes much less efficient because the dip tube is needed to circulate cold water properly in the heater's tank.
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The problem, everyone agrees, is with the plastic pipe called a dip tube, which a water-heater company can buy for 50 to 85 cents.
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Absent from the settlement is Perfection Corp ., the Ohio company that made the defective dip tubes, which cost less than $ 1 each.
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He said about 16 million defective dip tubes might have been installed, but the company still thought only a fraction of those would fail.
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Two dozen class-action suits have been filed against the water heater manufacturers and Perfection Corp ., which made the defective dip tubes manufacturers used.
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The " liquid out " port has a long tube ( a " dip tube " ) which reaches to the bottom of the keg.
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He recently spent two weeks trying to find out why there were plastic chips in his bath water before finally being told about the dip tubes.
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The water-heater companies and Perfection now concede that they underestimated the problem, although they still believe only a fraction of the defective dip tubes will fail.
