Re: funny leaky fountain pen story

"Brian Ketterling" <tweel6510@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Bluesea <this.addy.is@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>> Little shreds - bleah!
>
> Teflon tape is very thin and somewhat stretchy (without elastic
rebound).
> It conforms to and clings to male threads when you wrap them, then as
you
> screw the parts together it tears away from the peaks of the threads and
> packs into the valleys.  By filling in all those little spaces, it 
> prevents
> leaks.
>
> The advantage over traditional pipe "dope" is that it doesn't cement the
> parts together, so you can easily unscrew them again.  When you do, you 
> find
> compressed strings and shreds of Teflon wound around the thread.  Some
get
> loose, some have to be picked out.  So, good for pipes, but probably
> annoying for pens.

My thoughts, precisely. I wouldn't want to pick out little shreds each
time 
I refilled and then retape the threads.

> Ron Zorn, in the repair forum of the horrible (*yawn*)

;)

> FPN, warned someone who wanted to use Teflon tape on the point collar
> threads of a Parker "45" that those shreds can get loose and into the
> point's feed channels.

Thanks, Brian.

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