TimR wrote in
:

But recently I've heard people using Teflon tape instead of antiseize
and it sounds like a good idea.


Hmmm. Great, if it works! It would also seal the connection, another
common fault with some screw-on connections.

In my recent rehosing of my swamp cooler water supply I had to replace
the garden hose supplying the water because it kept developing new major
leaks. A few years ago I had problems with the threads leaking at the
connection between the old hose and the adapter to the copper tubing
connector to the cooler. I used teflon tape then to cure that problem. I
noted when I recently changed hoses that I could remove the old hose at
that teflon point with only a little trouble. I had written it off to
chance but as you mentioned, perhaps it was the teflon tape. I may just
do that to all the new cooler hose connections and skip the no-seize.


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"Where there's smoke there's toast!" Anon