"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
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Steve wrote:

The Daring Dufas wrote:

It only takes a tiny amount of Leak Lock on the sealing surfaces. Some
people think the more the better. Can you say: clogged TXV screen?

I only use that stuff in very small amounts on black iron pipe threads
when
I am running a gas line to a furnace.


I had to replace the gas service to my house in Ohio, years ago. The
character from CG&E was a pompous ass who informed me that I had failed
the pressure test before he even got out of his truck. Then he said,
None of the approzed contractor passed before the third test and no home
owner had ever passed the test so I was about to kiss the $75 fee
goodbye. The first thing he looked at was the Robroy installation kit,
the orange plastic gas pipe and the #12 copper wire that was secured to
the pipe.

Well, it did pass on the first try so he went to insect everything
else. Then he was standing there in my basement looking at the 21'
piece of black iron pipe that ran from a tee at the furnace, directly to
the gas meter outside. He finally asked how I got that much pipe into
the tiny basement. I smiled and told him it was really easy, after I
dug a 30° angled hole beside the meter, and gave the pipe a shove. Then
he tried to claim I used the wrong pipe tape, but couldn't deny that the
partially used roll was the proper type. All the pipe had been removed,
inspected and reinstalled after the old pipe dope was wire brushed from
the threads.

He was ****ed off, but he had to approve everything and turn my gas
back on.

The new water service was another story.

Some inspectors get a little full of themselves. The last time I had a run
in with an inspector, he was an ass from the start. I pulled *my* code
books, and the manufacturers instructions handed them to him and told him to
*SHOW* me where my work didn't comply. He couldn't do it, and had to pass
the job. He didn't work there very long after they figured out his resume
and job history wasn't what he said it was.