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- From: 1k1mgm@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Christopher Gunn)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house
- Subject: Re: Teflon Tape on gas service, was: Replacing gas range:
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.112613.45008@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 11:26:12 CST
- References: <LOWRY.92Nov20112132@rotor.watson.ibm.com> <1ek6blINN6vl@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1992Nov21.042245.13354@ulysses.att.com> <1elmkcINN591@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
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- In article <1elmkcINN591@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, wb8foz@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (David Lesher) writes:
- > I can't think of why t.t. is nfg on gas, except maybe pieces of it
- > may get into the pilot jets and clog them?
-
- I have no idea what the official reason is, but it's been my experience
- that Teflon tape crawls around some in the joint under pressure.
- Once replaced an old sink with an OLDER sink and could not
- for the life of me get it to stop dripping at the connections.
- Went to bed in despair but got up to find that it had 'healed.'
- If an apparently-tight gas joint crawled open, the results
- could be nasty. Conceivably, teflon might span a real gap in old
- or damaged threads with a film, only to fail catastrophically later.
-
- I've never done gas connections *without* Teflon tape (only done
- a few, though), but *WATCH* them for a while.
-
- Christopher Gunn Molecular Graphics and Modeling Lab
- SPAN--KUPHSX::GUNN Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Malott Hall
- 913-864-4428 or -4495 University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045
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