Also, if you use Teflon tape: wrap the overlap end so it's "downstream" of
the direction of twisting the female end on. So the overlap end does not
face the direction the female end is being applied. If I'm holding the male
end in my right hand, the tape overlap on it points toward me.
Bob Stevens

> In a message dated 11/19/03 12:00:05 PM, kennedy@THERIVER.COM writes:
>
> << I'm guessing teflon tape on everything that screws into
>
> the tank. Any better ideas? >>
>
> I like Teflon tape on any tapered thread fittings myself, but the
> tradesmen I
> know who spend their days winging together pipe fittings have all gone to
> Teflon paste pipe dope.  It could be that it is just to much of a nuisance
> to
> apply the tape properly.  Most people who do not know better think that
> more is
> better when it comes to Teflon tape and they wrap several layers around a
> thread.  One tight wrap with just a little extra to secure it is what is
> called
> for.  Too much and the tape is pushed along the thread without ever
> filling the
> space between the threads.
>
> George
>