CAN GLUE SOLVE A SMALL WEEP

[helptavner]

SOMETHING LIKE THIS
The Evo-Stik Serious Glue is a super strong, fix & repair adhesive, suitable for all materials in all conditions.

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THOUGHTS PLEASE

 

[45yearsagasman]

What are you using it on?

 

[Maxsys]

Need to know what exactly you are trying to fix, there may be a better solution.

 

[helptavner]

i get a tiny tiny weep (and i mean tiny) from a fitting that connectors on to the copper pipe as it connects to the toilet (the weep is from striaght tap connector as it connects to the pipe)

i tried to tighten it up but seems to be pretty tight (has been like this for some years) two days later all seems ok?!

thanks

 

[Maxsys]

Sounds like it needs a new washer to me, better than glue

 

[helptavner]

I dont think it has a washer i think its an olive

 

[Maxsys]

Can you take a pic, there will be an olive on the compression joint that joins the tap connector to the pipe (unless soldered) and a washer between the tap connector and the plastic filler tube for the toilet

 

[helptavner]

yes its just weeps at the top

http://www.homebase.co.uk/wcsstore/homebase/images/795819HBO111111M.jpg

i tried to tighten it up, but didnt solve it the glue seems to be working though......

i didnt fancy undoing it as it is very tight!

 

[seco services]

If it's weeping at the top all it needs is a fibre washer.
Once the fibre washers fail no tightening will stop it leaking.
Over tightening these on to plastic fill valve useally results in the plastic thread being stripped/stretched and then a new fill valve is required.

These only need nipping up to create a seal.

 

[Maxsys]

What Seco said, and i said before, fibre washer. get the glue off isolate the water supply and replace the fibere washer, cost about 5p take about 2 mins

 

[helptavner]

its not leaking at the top its at the bottom of the fitting, were it connects on to the copper. (but at the top so the olive must be weeping a tiny bit)

 

[Maxsys]

Aaah so the top of the nut that compresses the olive onto the pipe, in that case isolate the supply, this will not be the isolator on the fitting itself it may be your mains supply stopcock, undo the nut, couple of turns of PTFE tape around the olive, not around the thread, nip it back up.

Alternatively use a liquid PTFE like Loctite 55, or a jointing compound like Boss white or Jet Lube.

As a note over tightening compression joints is just about the worst thing you can do, it is the cause of most leaks on compression joints.

 

[Charnwood]

use a liquid PTFE like Loctite 55

And there was me thinking that Loctite 55 was solid and string-like.

 

[Maxsys]

use a liquid PTFE like Loctite 55

And there was me thinking that Loctite 55 was solid and string-like.

Of course Charnwood is correct, Loctite 55 is the string type pipe sealer, what i should have said was Loctite Bondloc, that is the liquid PTFE.

 

[helptavner]

as im under the impression that loctite liquid is a bit like what i have used and im reluctant to back the nut off a bit as it seemed very tight and 48hrs on all seems ok

anyone think my idea will work ?????

i tried this glue on a cracked toilet system (that would weep) every time it was flushed.. that lasted out a year or so, untill i replaced the toilet (i know thats possibly not the same pressure as mains feeding the toilet but so far so good. but a whole toilet tank has got to put the glue under pressure

the glue is water proof / life time bond and will bond from low temps to very high

thanks.