That's another thing -- all of the instructions say to put it in with 8 foot pounds of torque. My torque wrench doesn't even click at that setting, so I had to guess on how tight -- I wonder if there is another way to measure torque, without having to rely on an imprecise torque wrench? Maybe you put an 8 pound weight on the end of a one foot bar, or something.
I should add that on my old trailer I used TPE paste, and that anode rod certainly did degrade every year. So I don't think the paste would be causing a loss of conductivity. And whenever I use teflon tape on an ordinary plumbing project and then have to disassemble what I have just done (you'd be amazed at how often that happens!), it is very clear that the tape has been cut by the pipe threads and that there is metal to metal contact.
