Use Natural Gas in your home? Keep reading…
Go check your water heater for a little cloth bag hanging from the cold water valve. Looks like the old “Gold Rush” bubble gum bags for use old-timers. Got one? Keep reading…
Inside, you will find a pilot-light tube/thermocouple assembly and a little card that should tell you that this is a set-up for LP Gas (propane) and a little explaination about how the orifaces are a different size. Got one? Keep reading…
I need one! I’ll pay! PM me! All contacts confidential! 
Horrid, long backstory: They don’t sell pilot-light tube assemblys seperatly, it seems, however they give them away with most new water heaters (so the installer can hook up the correct set for the type of fuel used). I was replacing the thermocouple on a (propane) water heater and the pilot tube had a kink from the previous owner and while trying to dislodge that little bugger probe, the tube snapped! I hooked up the set-up for natural gas, but the pilot flame is larger, uses more gas and may lead to premature thermocouple failure (remember the thermocoupler failer? This song is about the theromocoupler failure ).
Not available at Home Despot, Lowes or even True Value (they have everything!). Even tried my neighbor, who is in the heating/AC biz. He doesn’t do water heaters. So, if you have a Natural Gas set up, and have an unused propane-sized oriface pilot tube hanging from the cold water valve, I’d like to talk to you!
