PTFE Thread Sealing Tape – 19 mm Width × 10 Meter Roll

Description

Product Description 

• Thread Seal Tape a polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) film cut to specified widths for use in sealing pipe threads.
• Thread seal tape can be used in many ways, the most common of which is to seal pipe threads.
• Also known as plumber’s tape, PTFE tape, tape dope, or popularly but incorrectly as Teflon tape.064
• In use, the tape is wrapped around the exposed threads of a pipe before it is screwed into place.
• The tape is commonly used commercially in pressurized water systems, such as central heating systems, as well as in air compression equipment and thread joints with coarse threads.
• One of the defining characteristics of PTFE is how good it is at defeating friction.
• The use of PTFE tape in tapered pipe threads performs a lubricating function, which more easily allows the threads to be screwed together, to the point of deformation, which is what creates the seal.

Uses

• Thread tape is appropriate for use on tapered threads, where the sealing force is a wedge action.
• Parallel threads may not seal effectively with or without tape, as they are intended to be sealed by a gasket.

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