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Posted by on January 29, 2007, 1:02 pm
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> > > Hello all,
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> > > Thanks for all the information, and time to help me out.
> > > Appreciate it.
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> > > Just one quick follow-up, please:
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> > > What type of Grease, or other lubricant, should the mating faces be
> > > lightly coated
> > > with prior to assembly ? Any reasons not to (water usage) ?
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> > > Thanks,
> > > Bob
> > > -------------------------- I would use Rectorseal pipe dope it's just
acting more like a lubricant .
> > Were ever the metal rubes or threads you want to coat. If you get to much on
> > it's just to wipe off after assembly. I don't know what the line is hooking
> > to but before you install a valve or whatever run some water threw the line
> > to get any debris out.Just my experience here. I don't know what the
_official_ stance is
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> I have _never_ applied any kind of pipe dope, lubricant or anything
> else to the mating faces. On the threads, yes. The mating faces do
> not slide across one another when intalling so don't need
> 'lubricant'. Sealer? Not in my experience. I have had leaks in just
> about any type joint normally found in a house but never in a union.
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> Harry K- Hide quoted text -- Show quoted text -
Agree. I'd just put some pipe dope on the threads.
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