Teflon Tape or Plumbers Putty?
For the past several years, I've been using teflon tape on the threads of the anode in my Suburban water heater to keep water from leaking out of the tank. This year, I bought a plumbers putty stick a...
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smkettner wrote:S Davis wrote:Are you sure you don't want to sandwich the dope between the layers of tape and hold it together with the lamp wick ;)
I use both, three wraps of tape and dope on top;-)Some times on big stuff I will use lamp wick, it looks like dental floss.
No because the top layer of tape will just slide and not do much, I have used all three on 4" or larger pipe before. Chase the threads with the lamp wick then a layer of tape and then dope.
