"Toller" wrote in
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Throw out the teflon tape, and coat the threads with pipe dope,
(plumbers joint compound)
or just a heavy grease.

A plumber I worked with swore by dope AND teflon.



A plumber I was watching (commercial work) swore by dope, then teflon, then
more dope. I guess he hated call-backs for leaking pipes