If you don’t know, call someone who does.
This right here. If you have to ask this question before you trace a pipe back to it’s source and figure it out for yourself, you should not be fucking with gas lines.
That is a gas connection. Screw the flex hose on there and put soapy water on the junction to check for leaks before you open the valve.
That’s a square tip plug. It could be a gas line, but ur not getting the drier hooked up to that thing.
Gas dryer, my man.
Cheaper to run than electric.
(Guessing the entire argument below is based on lexical ambiguity in English)
I did not know gas powered dryers existed. Is that just super old or something?
I’m in southern California and I think most houses have gas hookups for driers, often with gas stoves and gas water heaters too.
They work well and just make a lot of sense. However, I think they tend to be more expensive than electric clothes dryers.
They are super common here in the midwest. I don’t know anyone with an electric drier.
Is that midwest usa? They’re news to me jn the Netherlands
Yes, midwest USA. We all have gas pipes into the house for heating. So it became the default for stoves, hot water heating and clothes dryers.
I’ve committed to not buying new gas appliances when the old stuff breaks. I switched to a heat pump water heater last year. I really want to get rid of my gas stove next.
There’s gas here too, I just never thought of using it for a dryer. Personally I’d like to ditch has ASAP too
East coast USA, also in abundance here. A good deal of homes have all gas appliances.
Can you put a balloon over the nozzle and turn it on to see what comes out?
Gas has a distinctive small. Open it and see. Obviously if you do smell gas, ventilate the room and wait for it to clear.
Yeah it’s not dangerous to just open it for a second to smell. The handle looks to be blue though, so i’d wager it’s more probable to be water and keep a bucket under it.
Where does the pipe go?
This is the only response. If you truly can’t tell where tf it’s coming from, then start sniff testing and fuckin around with buckets.
Does traction work on lemmy same as reddit? Doots and comments make go up?
I think users can just sort the comments by ‘top’.
Follow the pipe and see what it connects to. If it connects to another pipe that is attached to a faucet it’s water. If it connects to another pipe that attaches to your furnace it’s gas
Is that a plug i see there on the end? Have you considered removing it and opening the valve a little to see what comes out?
its like kinda open on the bottom so not all the way plugged? kinda the main reason its confused me tbh ive never seen an attachment like it in my life
So that’s an NPT plug on the bottom. Hold the ring above the plug with one wrench and use another on the plug to unscrew it a bit. It’s painted over so it’ll be tough, though if you squeeze the two wrenches together it should come.
Just unscrew it a bit, and if the upper wrench is moving, stop and make sure you aren’t messing up the valve since if that ring comes off the bottom of the valve, you’ll have a hell of a time because the valve will drop apart.
If you crack the valve and smell gas, you have gas to that valve. Unless there’s another valve or that line is cut off, I would bet money that is gas. You will now need an NPT to flare fitting to put where that plug is, and an appropriate length flexible extension pipe from the dryer to the flare fitting. These are usually a yellow extension that you get at the hardware store. Get one long enough to be able to pull the dry our a bit and move it around, but not overly long. Use some gasline teflon tape (yellow again) or gas pipe dope to put the NPT adapter in, but don’t use anything on the flare fitting connections at the adapter and the dryer.
When you have everything hooked up, use soapy water and turn on the valve. If you see any bubbles at any of the connections, turn it off and tighten. It shouldn’t take all that much force to tighten a flare fitting so don’t go overboard.
If any of this confuses you, stop, watch some youtube videos, and if you’re still uncertain, hire a professional. Most plumbers can do minor gas fitting like this for you, you don’t need a gas installer.
It’s difficult to see from the picture provide what you might mean by “kinda open”. Can you provide a picture or may be an example of what is fastened to the valve body opposite the pipe? If you can’t, is what’s depicted in this link what you see? https://www.mcmaster.com/mvC/Library/20210709/7CBF13E4/4627K333_Medium-Pressure Iron Pipe Fitting.PDF
could be either. can you get a better look at the coding on the valve itself? painted white, on the right side
Looks like one to me
