mfrench
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Blue Monster PTFE Plumbers tape
Sometimes you run across products that just deserve to have praises screamed aloud!
This is one such product: Blue Monster PTFE tape.
I retrofitted a new swimming pool pump, and larger filter, earlier this summer. Both the pump and filter use cast-in 2" PVC thread female couplings. In order to make one device mate with the other, different fittings come into play; any of which can cause leak points. I got the components mated, and ended up with a near perfect result, except where the plumbing came into the filter, downstream of the pump. It developed an entirely irritating slight drip; just enough to wet the concrete at that point, but not enough to puddle or flow.
I tried a huge amount of typical grade ptfe tape, without any success. I tried silicone, without any luck.
then one day I needed to get some irrigation supplies, and stumbled on this stuff. The clerk said it is fantastic stuff, so I tried it.
AMAZING! Leak fixed, bone dry service pad.
Just yesterday, I renovated our main water supply line to the house. It had a large pvc cartridge filter device fitted in-line, down-flow from the water meter main connection output. It was obsolete, and baked brittle by 35++ years of sun (house built in '79, but don't know whole history of device). This device was for a time where the city water supply came from a dirt bottomed reservoir, and late summer water was full of silt. Present reservoirs are now lined, and water is clean.
So, to preempt any sort of catastrophic failure, I dug int and cut the old filter housing out. I rerouted the plumbing to a better location, for an irrigation box, and added a secondary main shutoff valve in a closer to the house location, added a hose bib in a new desirable location too, where the nearest one was a long way away.
I've used the Blue Monster 3/4" wide tape, in two critical applications now.
It is far thicker than the typical white tape.
What is a really cool component of the stuff, is that thee is a gel sealer that is built into the tape, and when under stress, like screwing fittings together, it releases this sealing gel, which adds an unbeatable layer of sealing to what teflon tape is already known for.
OK,.... Enough rambling.
You need to get a roll of this stuff. Its quite an amazing product.
Sometimes you run across products that just deserve to have praises screamed aloud!
This is one such product: Blue Monster PTFE tape.
I retrofitted a new swimming pool pump, and larger filter, earlier this summer. Both the pump and filter use cast-in 2" PVC thread female couplings. In order to make one device mate with the other, different fittings come into play; any of which can cause leak points. I got the components mated, and ended up with a near perfect result, except where the plumbing came into the filter, downstream of the pump. It developed an entirely irritating slight drip; just enough to wet the concrete at that point, but not enough to puddle or flow.
I tried a huge amount of typical grade ptfe tape, without any success. I tried silicone, without any luck.
then one day I needed to get some irrigation supplies, and stumbled on this stuff. The clerk said it is fantastic stuff, so I tried it.
AMAZING! Leak fixed, bone dry service pad.
Just yesterday, I renovated our main water supply line to the house. It had a large pvc cartridge filter device fitted in-line, down-flow from the water meter main connection output. It was obsolete, and baked brittle by 35++ years of sun (house built in '79, but don't know whole history of device). This device was for a time where the city water supply came from a dirt bottomed reservoir, and late summer water was full of silt. Present reservoirs are now lined, and water is clean.
So, to preempt any sort of catastrophic failure, I dug int and cut the old filter housing out. I rerouted the plumbing to a better location, for an irrigation box, and added a secondary main shutoff valve in a closer to the house location, added a hose bib in a new desirable location too, where the nearest one was a long way away.
I've used the Blue Monster 3/4" wide tape, in two critical applications now.
It is far thicker than the typical white tape.
What is a really cool component of the stuff, is that thee is a gel sealer that is built into the tape, and when under stress, like screwing fittings together, it releases this sealing gel, which adds an unbeatable layer of sealing to what teflon tape is already known for.
OK,.... Enough rambling.
You need to get a roll of this stuff. Its quite an amazing product.
