Comparing 16 PSI Radiator Cap to Carbonated Soda Can Pressures

Hot water heater exploding.....


When I was a kid, we went to a funeral for an uncle. There was a woman there (family friend) that was scarred, and I mean scarred all over her face, hands, arms, and presumably under her clothes, too. My mom leaned over to me and said that she had been the most beautiful woman in the county, until the furnace exploded when she was next to it. I'll never forget that, and that's the same reason that I get nervous around hot water heaters and I try to work the over-pressure valve on my water heater on a regular basis. I steer clear of radiator caps, too.