perhaps we should turn this topic into what silicone grease is best.. what do you recommend softas
Dont know about him but I recommend plenty of grease and a soft ass.
perhaps we should turn this topic into what silicone grease is best.. what do you recommend softas
Is this another of your attempts to give legal advice?Its nothing to do with what the makers say, its what the gas regulations say.
No, you wrote that you didn't have the others listed on the Screwfix tape.I just quoted from one, I just said I didn't have the others.How's about EN331:1998, and BS 746:2005, and BS 1552:1995?I don't have the British Standards listed on the Screwfix PTFE.
The boot is very much on the other foot. I was offering you information, but you seem not to have read your own post, instead just imagining what you wrote and expecting other people to read your mind.Do try to read what other people write occasionally.
And my original answer said that the thin tape is incredibly useful, but you seem to have ignored that and instead focussed on the coarse thread aspect. Why you believe that PTFE is useful only on threads is beyond me.Because the standard I quoted said you should use the G stuff. There are standards.I don't see why not..But it shouldn't be used on coarse threads.Because it's incredibly useful, and because gas PTFE is often too thick.Which raises a different question, why is the thin stuff sold for plumbing?
I just quoted from one, I just said I didn't have the others.How's about EN331:1998, and BS 746:2005, and BS 1552:1995?I don't have the British Standards listed on the Screwfix PTFE.
No, you wrote that you didn't have the others listed on the Screwfix tape.
The boot is very much on the other foot. I was offering you information, but you seem not to have read your own post, instead just imagining what you wrote and expecting other people to read your mind.
And my original answer said that the thin tape is incredibly useful, but you seem to have ignored that and instead focussed on the coarse thread aspect. Why you believe that PTFE is useful only on threads is beyond me.
Is there any difference between using gas PTFE taps and more turns of standard PTFE?
Well thank you.Well, that's a jolly interesting interpretation.
Yes. The fact that they all apply to gas, in some way, is just a highly improbable and therefore astonishing coincidence.Do you make these numbers up at random?
Well done. With that degree of initiative you could be a stalwart member of the Nazi party.I'm just quoting what the BS that I do have saysAnd my original answer said that the thin tape is incredibly useful, but you seem to have ignored that and instead focussed on the coarse thread aspect. Why you believe that PTFE is useful only on threads is beyond me.
I do like it, so who should I write to?If you don't like it, write to the BSI.
Yes. The thing you call "standard" PTFE is not unsintered (which you'd know if you had read the topic properly), which means that it's not suitable for use on gas joints.Is there any difference between using gas PTFE taps and more turns of standard PTFE?
Yes. The fact that they all apply to gas, in some way, is just a highly improbable and therefore astonishing coincidence.
Well done. With that degree of initiative you could be a stalwart member of the Nazi party.
Yes. The thing you call "standard" PTFE is not unsintered (which you'd know if you had read the topic properly), which means that it's not suitable for use on gas joints.
I don't see why not.Regular PTFE shouldn't be used on gas joints
So is it your belief that everyone who made a gas joint before PTFE tape was introduced was incompetent?but you shouldn't be working on gas pipes if you don't know that.
Quite right. I was merely being mischievous. Sorry.It's a bit redundant having to explain it because you and I both know you understood what I meant
They weren't supposed to.None of the BS numbers you quoted have any relevance to PTFE.
Please show me what I posted that was wrong.you are, in this case, wrong
That's kind of you, but I've no need to do either of those things. In the unlikely event that I find myself in any doubt about its meaning, I'd refer to the engineering book from which I first learned about the process back in 1976.You should look up the word sintered; you'll find it on Wikipedia.
Oh really? Then I suggest you get a camera ready for the moment you discover you're wrong, 'cos that look on your face is gonna be priceless.It is all unsintered.
which joint should not be done with PTFE gas or otherwise
They weren't supposed to.
That's kind of you, but I've no need to do either of those things. In the unlikely event that I find myself in any doubt about its meaning, I'd refer to the engineering book from which I first learned about the process back in 1976.
Oh really? Then I suggest you get a camera ready for the moment you discover you're wrong, 'cos that look on your face is gonna be priceless.
To open your eyes, and your closed mind, to the existence of other standards that are easily found on the Interweb.Why post them in a discussion about PTFE when they have nothing to do with PTFE?
That's because it takes one to know one.I doubt that you have any engineering background
You are highly intelligent, thorough, responsible, knowledgeable, professional, skilled, and helpful.I now doubt everything you write.
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