Have used this before on an immersion heater and got a perfect seal
first time.

Just used it again to seal a quite damaged thread on a mains pressure
shower valve - again first time success, despite it not sealing
properly with ptfe tape.

Really recommend this stuff for difficult to seal threads.

http://www.screwfix.com/prods/42142/...-Seal-Cord-50m

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Have used this before on an immersion heater and got a perfect seal
first time.

Just used it again to seal a quite damaged thread on a mains pressure
shower valve - again first time success, despite it not sealing
properly with ptfe tape.

Really recommend this stuff for difficult to seal threads.

http://www.screwfix.com/prods/42142/...-Seal-Cord-50m


Seconded. It's phenomenal stuff.

Amazingly it's difficult stuff to find in most traditional plumbers
merchants, or even the sheds.

On Mar 1, 3:05*pm, "Vortex4" wrote:

Amazingly it's difficult stuff to find in most traditional plumbers
merchants, or even the sheds.
Its far too new to be adopted over ptfe tape. If they stopped selling
PTFE tape, what would numpties use on the threads of compression
fittings? It always raises a smile when I see a compression coupler or
trv with 'socks' of ptfe tape sticking out.

Dave

Vortex4 wrote:
wrote in message
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Have used this before on an immersion heater and got a perfect seal
first time.

Just used it again to seal a quite damaged thread on a mains pressure
shower valve - again first time success, despite it not sealing
properly with ptfe tape.

Really recommend this stuff for difficult to seal threads.

http://www.screwfix.com/prods/42142/...-Seal-Cord-50m


Seconded. It's phenomenal stuff.

Amazingly it's difficult stuff to find in most traditional plumbers
merchants, or even the sheds.

Thanks chaps, I shall invest the required £3! Sounds good.


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Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

"Dave Starling" wrote in message
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On Mar 1, 3:05 pm, "Vortex4" wrote:

Amazingly it's difficult stuff to find in most traditional plumbers
merchants, or even the sheds.
Its far too new to be adopted over ptfe tape. If they stopped selling
PTFE tape, what would numpties use on the threads of compression
fittings? It always raises a smile when I see a compression coupler or
trv with 'socks' of ptfe tape sticking out.

Dave

The PTFE reduces the friction coefficient at the threads. That gives you
more pressure on the olive, for a given torque.

On 1 Mar, 14:28, " wrote:
Have used this before on an immersion heater and got a perfect seal
first time.

Just used it again to seal a quite damaged thread on a mains pressure
shower valve - again first time success, despite it not sealing
properly with ptfe tape.

Really recommend this stuff for difficult to seal threads.

http://www.screwfix.com/prods/42142/...ccessories/Loc...

Loctite 572

http://www.screwfix.com/prods/72039/...pe-Sealant-63g

is also brilliant!

I'll definitely get some of that string.

On 2 Mar, 19:04, "newshound" wrote:
"Dave Starling" wrote in message

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On Mar 1, 3:05 pm, "Vortex4" wrote:

Amazingly it's difficult stuff to find in most traditional plumbers
merchants, or even the sheds.
Its far too new to be adopted over ptfe tape. If they stopped selling
PTFE tape, what would numpties use on the threads of compression
fittings? It always raises a smile when I see a compression coupler or
trv with 'socks' of ptfe tape sticking out.

Dave

The PTFE reduces the friction coefficient at the threads. That gives you
more pressure on the olive, for a given torque.

That may be so, but as an amateur, more pressure is the least of my
concerns. I stopped having trouble with compression fittings when I
stopped using ptfe and used less torque.