Garden tap help

[fossilman]

Hi Guys. I am fitting a garden tap at the weekend. What i need to know is how do you pack out the wall plate thread as at the moment the tap does not sit square with the tube compression nut and is about 45 degrees out. Do you need to use a certain type of washer etc ??

Thanks
Ian

 

[dontknowitall]

Lots of ptfe tape - well, a fair amount of it.

One of the only times you wrap poofta tap around a thread.

If you wrap it around the thread of the tap about 10 times (have another go if it doesn't work) then turn the tap on to the wall plate. At some stage it will be too tight to complete a full turn - not an exact science (to my knowledge) but tight enough so the tap doesn't twist when you turn it on.

(If you put the tape on the wrong way it wraps into a sort of mangled affair. So start again putting it on the other way!)

 

[bobpape]

These fittings have parallel threads..not suitable for boss white and hemp or ptfe

A hemp grommet or fibre washers is the way we are supposed to make the joint.
trouble is no one seems to have told the manufacturers to provide flat landings on the BP elbow,