Anyone have an insinkerator hot water dispenser?

**Breaddrink** · 08-15-2006, 08:41 PM

Heres the thing...The fitting on ours cracked where it meets the boiler itself and secures with a nylon compression nut.
Insinkerator say they don't sell a replacement part for this and a new boiler must be purchased.

This seems sort of ridiculous to me, and frankly the fitting should have been brass in the first place and not nylon.
I notice on the newer tanks they are brass, but buying a replacement is nearly the same cost as a whole new unit with faucet and fittings too and they're not cheap.

If anyone has any experience with dismantling these I'm all ears.
I don't know exactly how it connects with the boiler but I don't see why I can't replace the fitting somehow short of it being welded inside the tank and completely closed off.

The model number is H770

I'm tempted to just ripp it out and plug the hole in the sink if this doesn't seem worth repairing.

Rob.

**a144ishere** · 08-16-2006, 04:29 PM

It was sure nice having one while it worked, but I remember (as a kid) we got rid of ours altogether. Perhaps then it was for similar reasons you are experiencing now.

**rblusthaus** · 08-17-2006, 10:39 AM

They do seem to need to be replaced every 5 or so years - Im on my third - but as a tea drinker - it has become the most used "gadget" in the kitchen.

Do you coffee drinkers out there ever replace your coffee pot?

**Breaddrink** · 08-17-2006, 03:26 PM

Well the one thing that has me in two minds over it's replacement is the flavour of the water.
there was a kind of aftertaste flatness to the water that you don't get when you freshly boil water.

I was told in school that this is because water quickly loses the oxygen when boiled, so a boiler full of it would I supose by that theory develop a very flat taste.
I notice the same thing happens if you try to make tea with bottled water.

Makes tea taste funny. I'm english, I can't help it.
Or on the other hand it's not been used for a while and just needed to be run through.

They seem to sell for much less on ebay.
I may grab one from there.

Rob.

**Breaddrink** · 08-21-2006, 02:05 PM

Sooo, we got a replacement.

I know for a fact that the old one is only 4 years old, but even so the new units have come a very very long way.

They're a much more substancial product and have metal connections.
The tank itself claims to be stainless steel inside and they've taken to mounting the thermostat on the outside of the case, so you can just turn it up or down depending on your needs.

I checked out the old boiler and sure enough, the plastic fitting was cracked and very dead indeed.
Hopefully that won't be happening with the new one.
The outer housing on the new boiler is thick plastic in a casing that actualy opens unlike the old one where it was riveted thin sheet metal that conducted heat far too well.

Also the snap connectors were ridiculously easy to install. It took minutes.
Oh and I supose most importantly, it doesn't taste terrible like the old one either.
Sooo...Not cheap at 200 bux every 4 or 5 years, but they certainly do seem to have improved them.
We'll see how long this one lasts.

Rob.

Sonny Edmonds · 08-21-2006, 03:40 PM

OK, so at 40 bucks a year, it's cheaper than Starbutts! ;) (Uhh, sans the electricity to keep a boiler of hot wa-wa available.)

We just nuke stuff in the microwave to get it hot. (Like moo-juice for hot chockolatte.)
We do have a reverse osmosusus system for drinking water and the ice maker in the fridge.
But either the nuke oven or a teakettle to make hotter water.

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Sonny Edmonds · 08-21-2006, 03:52 PM

Well, yeah. I tried to get one more go out of it over the camp fire, but the durned thing melted and caught afire! :o
That pot tasted like burnt plastic! :P
LOL!

Actually, we just recently got a newer one and retired the older one to the RV so we don't have to carry the one back and forth for at home or away.
That older one I inherited from my folks when my Mom passed away in '99. I always did love it for it's speed and simplicity.
It's a Braun. Just a switch. Real simple and basic.
The new one is the same, but black, to go with the dark (DARK!) green granite countertop in the kitchen now.
Mama got her a new toaster in black also. They tend to disappear on the dark counter/backsplash.

But no, my coffee makers tend to last a long time. (Hellava lot longer than to tea drinkers water boilers, I guess. :o :P ;) )

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