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Tape + Dope....for anything,ever?
Tell it to me straight...Am I a Dope?
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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.
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I had to work today, what did I miss? What was the question? Were the usual
suspects involved?
suspects involved?
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Probably. You practically have to hold some people at gun point just to get a straight answer from them.
Metal on metal gets tape and dope. Manifold parts I use just tape.
Others may disagree.
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Thank you.
I am praying and confident that there will be a consensus.
I am very sensitive to any form of disagreement.
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You are being sarcastic I pray.
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Where, exactly, are you still buying dope? That you can buy thread SEALANT, or TFE PASTE, I have no doubt, BUT I will repeat (one more time, from the cheap seats for the pups who have no clue), that I don't think you can actually buy PIPE DOPE anymore.
Yes you ca. Home Depot has it.
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Post a link. They sell nothing in the store you can't buy on-line. You can take offense at this point if you want to, but I still say what your buying is NOT pipe dope. It will either be a modern thread sealant or teflon paste.
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Search for "pipe dope" at Home cheapo.............results zero
Search for "dope"...........no results in plumbing
Search for "thread sealant".............5 results all rectorseal products
Search for "dope"...........no results in plumbing
Search for "thread sealant".............5 results all rectorseal products
You are correct I call it dope (actualy I call it mud) But it is realy teflon thread sealant.
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DOPE= Sealant=Teflon paste=Rectorseal=others
sorry,just easier to say and spell.
Dope probably isn't dope anymore anyway.
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Same search at Lowe's gives one result for an Oatey product. A search of their site gives this definition for dope
2. What is pipe dope?
Pipe dope is an industry slang term for thread sealant. It lubricates and seals when it is brushed on to pipe threads where two pipes are joined.
Generally, in my experience, any time we use the term "industry slang" like this, it is to imply that the word being used doesn't truly exist. In this case, dope wa a real product, but only back in the day of galvy and iron pipe.
2. What is pipe dope?
Pipe dope is an industry slang term for thread sealant. It lubricates and seals when it is brushed on to pipe threads where two pipes are joined.
Generally, in my experience, any time we use the term "industry slang" like this, it is to imply that the word being used doesn't truly exist. In this case, dope wa a real product, but only back in the day of galvy and iron pipe.
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Nonetheless here is plumbers discussing the topic as well.
http://www.ridgidforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13506
http://www.ridgidforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13506
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This guy had a funny response.
6 pages on this topic and not one thread stealer (pun) among the bunch.
i dont take offense. I am not going to argue with the ingredience of pipe dope. hahah But i bought pipe dope at home depot and used it when i installed my new kitchen. It says pipe dope right on it.
oh and by the way, they dont have everything listed online! not even close
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He sounds like the Fimco-Meister of the plumbing world (no offense).
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Piker.....
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