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Originally Posted by Reggie[_3_]
seems you would have to put the thread not only on the threads, but slop it
over the pipe channel in order to have any flake off into the gas flow.
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You're saying that the tapered pipe threads would grip the tape and prevent flakes of it from coming loose.
That makes sense. If the teflon is tightly squeezed between the male pipe threads and the female pipe threads, how do "flakes" of it get into the gas stream? The taping would have had to have been done by a monkey for there to be loose teflon tape flapping around in the gas stream.