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Thank you for all the advice regarding Teflon tape. This is on a 5
year old Mahindra tractor, I've been impressed with the machine in
general, but not the hoses or other rubber parts. I will probably
try what Tom suggested and use a little, but stay well back from
where it could migrate into the system. If that fails, I'll need to
have a new hose made.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Mike M<br>
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PS - a friend of mine owns a heating and cooling business, and he
commonly uses both tape, then paste on all his gas connections.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/14/2020 11:26 AM, Cecil Bearden
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<p>Bo: I always stuck to that teaching. Even though in the early
days the loader manufacturers would supply a couple of rolls of
teflon tape with a new loader. Wealways used paste, or the
stick which was a lot easier to use. I used a lot of
Rectorseal in the day. Here lately I bought a lot of fittings
from Discount Hyd hose.com, ant the fittings would leak no
matter how much teflon paste or type of paste, or tight I got
the fitting. I even used an impact wrench and a vise to tighten
the fittings on the hose.. So, I got to using the tape and
stopped having leaks. A good friend worked 10 years for a
large Farm Eq dealer and he told me thay had to start using
teflon tape on all NPT fittings. <br>
Cecil<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/14/2020 8:42 AM, Bo Hinch
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<div dir="ltr">I was in business for 25 years and I always told
a new hire to NEVER use tape on a hyd. fitting . If you
did and I found out , you were FIRED on the spot . A person
would be surprised at what one little piece can cost a
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 8:09
AM Cecil Bearden <<a href="mailto:crbearden@copper.net"
moz-do-not-send="true">crbearden@copper.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">With the chinese fittings
we are stuck with now, teflon tape is <br>
necessary. I use a brand called Blue Monster for
Hydraulics. I used <br>
paste for years as tape was not recommended for hydraulics.
It got to <br>
where paste would still leak. The threads were bad enough
to need tape...<br>
Cecil<br>
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On 12/14/2020 2:59 AM, Tom Martin wrote:<br>
> Accepted practice is to start wrapping the fitting, 2 x
threads from<br>
> the end of the fitting, that will preclude tape
contamination of the fluid.<br>
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> Tom<br>
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>> On 14 December 2020 at 19:48 Mike M <<a
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>> Hi all, was wondering if was OK to use Teflon tape
on a hydraulic fitting?<br>
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