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My Indirect hot water cylinder has a total of 4x connections.
1x Cold feed in
1x Hot outlet
1x CH coil in
1x CH coil out
The lower cold feed has a female thread into the tank. It then has a brass coloured male adaptor that screws into the tank, which then has a 22mm nut and olive on the outside to connect to the 22mm feed pipe.
I have a small weep coming from just underneath the adaptor.
Because of the insulation (and lack of space) I cannot see if the weep is originating from the adaptor to tank thread, or the nut/olive to adaptor.
I drained down the cylinder. Unscrewed the fitting. Wrapped the male thread in ptfe tape and screwed it back it in. I then wrapped the olive and rescrewed the 22mm pipe back on.
But it still weeps!!!!
Has anybody any suggestions?
I plan to drain it down again and redo it, but perhaps some of you may have some tips to ensure it becomes water tight!
Thanks in advance.
1x Cold feed in
1x Hot outlet
1x CH coil in
1x CH coil out
The lower cold feed has a female thread into the tank. It then has a brass coloured male adaptor that screws into the tank, which then has a 22mm nut and olive on the outside to connect to the 22mm feed pipe.
I have a small weep coming from just underneath the adaptor.
Because of the insulation (and lack of space) I cannot see if the weep is originating from the adaptor to tank thread, or the nut/olive to adaptor.
I drained down the cylinder. Unscrewed the fitting. Wrapped the male thread in ptfe tape and screwed it back it in. I then wrapped the olive and rescrewed the 22mm pipe back on.
But it still weeps!!!!
Has anybody any suggestions?
I plan to drain it down again and redo it, but perhaps some of you may have some tips to ensure it becomes water tight!
Thanks in advance.