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I've never done any hydronic heating piping, until tomorrow. In all my chemical handling equipment I use teflon. Mainly because it's clean, easily stored and needs no set up time. I've had teflon leak, but nothing a re wrapped and cleaned up thread didn't solve. We are talking lines as big as 3 inch to small as 1/2, mainly plastic stuff. PSI ranging from 30 to 120.
I won't be dealing with high PSI tomorrow but 200 degree water is the unknown variable.
Going to pick a can of Rectorseal # 5 so I have a comparison. IMHO, combining the two sealants sound like a last resort fix. But what do I know? The teflan they reccomended me is thicker than the reg white teflan and its blue. Minimum 3 wraps.
Thanks for the tips!
I've never done any hydronic heating piping, until tomorrow. In all my chemical handling equipment I use teflon. Mainly because it's clean, easily stored and needs no set up time. I've had teflon leak, but nothing a re wrapped and cleaned up thread didn't solve. We are talking lines as big as 3 inch to small as 1/2, mainly plastic stuff. PSI ranging from 30 to 120.
I won't be dealing with high PSI tomorrow but 200 degree water is the unknown variable.
Going to pick a can of Rectorseal # 5 so I have a comparison. IMHO, combining the two sealants sound like a last resort fix. But what do I know? The teflan they reccomended me is thicker than the reg white teflan and its blue. Minimum 3 wraps.
Thanks for the tips!
