I remember the first time I installed a sprinkler head and read " use no pipe dope" I thought " how did they know it was going to be me installing it"?

 

My understanding is that the "use no dope" disclaimer is to limit the knuckleheads that put a 3" bead on the riser and then end up with clogged filters. It shouldn't hurt the plastic or anything.

 

I remember the first time I installed a sprinkler head and read " use no pipe dope" I thought " how did they know it was going to be me installing it"?

:laugh::laugh::laugh:

 

You do not need rectorseal. Period.

 

You do not need rectorseal. Period.

If you use a Marlex ell, that is true. Period.

 

You don't need the paste dope period, unless you have a bad case of limp wrists. Old paste dopes were never intended to contact plastic, which wasn't in plumbing use when the paste dopes were formulated.

 

You don't need the paste dope period, unless you have a bad case of limp wrists.

Only ROTAR has the wrist problem, the newer dope is made for plastics.

 

Only ROTAR has the wrist problem, the newer dope is made for plastics.

Major diss :waving: ~ When those stickers first appeared, a lot of paste dopes were original formulas, and death to some plastics.

 

I always read it as "Use No Pipe, Dope".

Then I wondered how to get water to the sprinklers.

 

I'm not sure what you guys are talking about.

 

nice inside out glass piece

 

nice inside out glass piece

It's served me well.

 

wow.....leary.....someday....me/u

 

wow.....leary.....someday....me/u

His wife might take issue.

 

C'mon Boots, Mike. It's fun to laugh at the pups, but do the even sell PIPE DOPE anymore? They sell pipe sealant and most of it is teflon based. I don't think you can even buy the stuff we used to use on galvy swing joints and fittings. The Dope warnings were on all the bird in a bucket heads too. the internal workings and the non-metal parts in the valve in heads really didn't like dope.

 

So,

Tape + Dope = Everlasting JOY ???

 

So,

Tape + Dope = Everlasting JOY ???

No, nothing needed at all.

 

You just don't have horrible leakage at heads threaded onto bare sch 80 risers. In olden days there was even an adjustable riser brass head that used 'straight' pipe threads to connect to the similarly-threaded brass riser nipple.

 

I'm not sure what you guys are talking about.

What the.......!?!?!? :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Is this how you make a sea monkey?

 

Tape + Dope....for anything,ever?

 

GEEEZ, I thought the days of Boots and his bandwidth police was bad. There are threads missing from here?? A silly comment from Dana no less? Not even his normal level of sarcasm. I bet a guy could miss entire conversations with the mods acting this way.

 

I had to work today, what did I miss? What was the question? Were the usual
suspects involved?

 

I had to work today, what did I miss? What was the question? Were the usual suspects involved?

Probably. You practically have to hold some people at gun point just to get a straight answer from them.

 

Tape + Dope....for anything,ever?

Metal on metal gets tape and dope. Manifold parts I use just tape.
Others may disagree.

 

Metal on metal gets tape and dope. Manifold parts I use just tape.
Others may disagree.

Thank you.

I am praying and confident that there will be a consensus.

I am very sensitive to any form of disagreement.