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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LarryJM wrote:navegator wrote:
Teflon tape is not a sealer, it is a thread lubricant,
navegator
Where do you come up with that poppycock bull:h:R:h
I always thought the same as Navegator. That the teflon tape lubricates the threads so that you can tighten the fitting enough that the metal jams into the fitting tighter. But when I think about it, the tape has to also seal any microscopic pits or voids.
