It may have been cotton, but I suspect it was not. The New Zealanders
and maybe the Ausies ought to chime in here............ Could it have
been Hemp?

Dan


jim rozen wrote in message


The interesting part though was that today I took the
parts into work to give them the close hairy eyeball
under a good microscope, and while looking at them,
I realized that whoever made up the threaded fitting
between the adapter and the valve, used some unusual
compound in the threads - in fact, he had used nothing
more than cotton sewing thread. It was all bunched
up at the root of the male copper threads, but there
were several layers of thread that I could unwind and
inspect.

Ah the joys of old houses!

Jim

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