Nil wrote:
On 28 Jul 2008, dpb wrote in alt.home.repair:

Unless it's terribly _tight_ as opposed to loose tolerances, 1
turn after fingers can't be very tight at all...how much actual
torque are you applying is the key...

Give it another turn and your problems will all go away I'm
betting.

Well, you were right. I had tightened it quite a lot, so I thought,
but I forced it another turn... and it's been holding perfectly dry
now for almost two days. I could probably have turned it even a
little farther, but I was afraid that it would end pointing in a
direction that would have made impossible to attach the water
supply.

So, I was being a wuss. I guess I just needed to assert my
masculinity, and I now feel more aggressive and hairier. Thanks!

This is a not uncommon problem. I used to teach a PC hardware class
in which one of the exercises was to install RAM. The women in the
class always did better at it than the men because the women weren't
afraid to put their weight on it when seating the SIMMs.

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