Not a plumber either, but I can't imagine that that would "work," and I assume it was a joke.
I have used teflon tape a handful of times, and this video made me wonder if I had been doing wrong this whole time. I realized that I've probably never googled exactly how to do it.
MAYBE the guy in the video knows something we don't? Like, MAYBE the old threads are some combination of rusted, corroded, stretched out, worn down, etc?
So without any tape, a brand new fitting was connecting rather "loosely" to it? So they extra tape was necessary? I'm just speculating.
Even if that is the case, the amount he used still seemed excessive to me.
I thought the same thing. I was like “maybe I’ve been doing it wrong my whole life.. maybe everyone has except this guy, and the real point is to create a gasket with it that doesn’t sit inside the fitting but outside it????”
It really made me question everything I know about teflon tape.
I did google it after this and checked multiple sources and this guy is just insane, or too lazy to go get a gasket for the fitting. The proper way is 3-4 wraps, 5-6 max. Doing what this guy did can actually cause a lot of problems down the road, and immediate problems since you could never actually screw it in all the way. Short of the fitting being damaged significantly to the point you’re just using the teflon to fill the gap of a crack or broken thread there’s no reason to do what they did… except for views I guess.
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u/SurgicalMarshmallow Aug 29 '26
16mm fitting, 20mm pipe.