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The Natural Philosopher wrote:
The problem is once you start, its easy to go too far and get to the
limits of the thread to compress the olive. Such a joint has no more
'slack' left in it, and will be unreliable when re-used.

On a 1/2" fitting it requires a brutal effort to tighten one to this
extent. And unlikely to happen unless overlong tools are used.

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