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PlumbBobBob
when i saw the picture i said out loud "oh my good god" i wonder if he has shares in ptfe manufacture? that is just so wrong.
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I was close, four foot snake, sprang to mind.
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erpkid
Sorry to add a bit more fuel to this but am in midst of ebay argument with a German who bid on one of my lathes a 3/4 ton Colchester and he expects me to palletise and get it on the roadside for this carrier. This was advertised as collection only with assistance but this arrogant chap assumes an old uk plumber can lift this out of his workshop on a sloping site onto a pallet so he can pay by paypal then reverse the payment......scum.....rant off..............
Anyhow back to ptfe and paste.........I use a little paste but mainly to lubricate the threads so on nipping up your are experiencing resistance to the compression of the olive rather than the thread friction.
Anyhow back to ptfe and paste.........I use a little paste but mainly to lubricate the threads so on nipping up your are experiencing resistance to the compression of the olive rather than the thread friction.
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glenno1
Are you called supper plumb because you make a meal of it
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supper plumb
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legend about the PTFE part
legend about the PTFE part
we had a tool like that. Same scenario but we did load it onto the pallets.
He came with his mate to inspect it (cash on collection)
he was pretty....insulting and knocked us a 100 quid for the lathe.
He paid being quite smug, insultingly so.
His mate drops it! Tool couldent drive a widowmaker to save his life.
now its ruined.
he turns around and demands for his money back 😀
Err nah!
Ironic as if he hadn't knocked us the money we would have loaded it.
He said use it round olives but mainly wrap it around threads...
There are certain times you may need to use it round an olive and that's normally on an already leaking compression fitting or an old one you've had to undo for whatever reason. As for wrapping it around threads, there are certain threads you will need to use it on and a compression fitting thread isn't one of them.
The plumbers on this forum aren't lying to you or winding you up, they're trying to help/teach you.
By the way, you could do with an avatar...
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Cut pipe.
Slide on Nut
Slide on Olive
1 wrap of PTFE near the end of the pipe.
Slide olive on to it and 1 wrap PTFE over olive.
Now the Olive won't slip off, especially if in the vertical.
A touch of Blue on fitting threads over 28mm just to ease the effort required
Slide on Nut
Slide on Olive
1 wrap of PTFE near the end of the pipe.
Slide olive on to it and 1 wrap PTFE over olive.
Now the Olive won't slip off, especially if in the vertical.
A touch of Blue on fitting threads over 28mm just to ease the effort required
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Gray0689
Why lol
The olive to fitting contact will cut the ptfe tape to bits.
It will be better than putting nothing on the compression joint, but paste has to be better & is a fine sealant.
If using ptfe on olive, I would prefer to first compress the joint, then take apart & wrap 2 or 3 turns of tape over the entire olive.
Do not PTFE olives. End of story.
Surely you will have leaks if you do every compression joint dry?
A seized up fitting or one with a slight bit of white corrosion on the brass fitting or green at pipe is a leak, slight that it may be! I have never seen a job full of unpasted brass compression joints that hasn't leaks, especially with the cheap fittings nowadays.
Neve ever had one.
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Koogatubac
Supper plumb,
You r a inspiration to us plumbers, why the hell have we spent years and years understanding the trade when you come and do jobs like this.
Seriously... Your obviously incapable of understanding the VERY basics in how a olive seals onto the pipe.
Give up plumbing or join a REAL plumber who can teach you.
This has to be a wind up...
You r a inspiration to us plumbers, why the hell have we spent years and years understanding the trade when you come and do jobs like this.
Seriously... Your obviously incapable of understanding the VERY basics in how a olive seals onto the pipe.
Give up plumbing or join a REAL plumber who can teach you.
This has to be a wind up...
If there's a 2mbar drop on a U6 with existing app...
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Koogatubac
Wtf this about?! Lol
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Koogatubac
O god, just read it, im not getting involved lol cba
Never one leak? Not even microscopic leaks that appear as corrosion, weeks, months or years later?
Do you ever use standard compression fittings, or ballofix valves for example? You will have leaks without paste. There is no magic touch a plumber can do that will make tightening a nut a special leak proof job.
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Kyle87
Stop bullying keefy or ill report you!!
Still waiting for my first leak, it'll come one day I know that, but so far I've had none. For some reason though, I bought a tub of JetBlue today. Subliminal thought in my head from reading this thread I suppose?
I don't know why it's so hard to believe there are people out there who have always done their compression fittings right. I never leave a job without checking round every joint I've done.
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