PTFE on compression fittings?

[JohnD]

Not all.

LSX is very tiresome to pick out if you need to open and remake a joint.

Also, since my joints don't leak with PTFE, I don't need the extra time and trouble of LSX.

 

[studips]

yes, LSX is good $hit, but it is an irritant & is quite pricey. i use lsx on occassion when there is a tricky one as it does seem to work well, and there is a tube in my box, but i'll stick with me half kilo tub of jet blue for most things.

lsx may have advantages, but so does jet blue i can wipe that on with my finger and straight off my fingers onto a rag, no problems.

maybe i need to update, but for now it ain't broke so it don't need fixing

 

[studips]

CJ, don't forget that trolls like pushing your buttons & whereas they'd probably would be nice as pie to your face.

the ignore button is right there next to the Thanks button

 

[kevplumb]

are you planning to stay long, TrollJacobson?

they come and then they go john usually after being kicked off

the likes of us however are stuck here admin won't ban us no matter how hard we try

 

[libby lou lou]

are you planning to stay long, TrollJacobson?

What the f. ucc, is this personel?

 

[kevplumb]

not to me

 

[DIYDANDY]

not to me

 

[Nige F]

Onetap , . Yes I remember the gasket on my Thunderbird - couldn`t afford a Bonnie

I could.
I've still got it.

Heat to pillar box red and quench in the kitchen sink.
It still leaked oil.
Anneal as above and use some Hermetite Gold.
Still leaked oil.

happy days - tho` I understood not to quench but let cool naturally

 

[Onetap]

happy days - tho` I understood not to quench but let cool naturally

Yes, that's the way I used to do it, from tempering steel. I was assured by a guy, who had lots of old Brit bikes and raced them, that quenching was the proper way. It seemed to come out dead soft both ways.

 

[Driver23]

I just tightened up a new 22mm copper olive fitting as tight as I thought wise (till it creaked slightly - I guess the olive tightening up), undid it and hey presto - I moved the olive round with my fingers! Is there any way of knowing when a compression fitting is correctly tight? To me the olives supplied with these fittings seem a bit loose on the pipe (before tightening), though the pipe is 22mm and the fittings say 22mm as well. Might try getting some other olives.

This is pipework for a concealed 3 bar shower, so rather not get it wrong...

Thanks.

(sorry if these q's were answered previously)

 

[stevw451]

Have actually had the yorkshire rep out on one job and he aggreed to replace all olives eith ones of a better quality as the cheap rubbish from china where not compressing onto the pipe causing several major floods on this job