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You Might be Onto Something,........<br /><br />Even though it's Not Anodes we're talking about,.......<br />It IS a Totally Bonded System,.......<br /><br />That's the Why Fors of All the Little Woven Wires that Merc has screwed to every moving piece of the drives,.....<br />I'm Sure that a manifold fitting would Also have to be Bonded,......<br />Just for Electrolysis's(say That 3 times Fast) sake..............
<br /><br />And like Keith says,.... The Paste just OOzes around,+ it IS in fact a Metal to Metal Contact...........
<br /><br />About the 3rd time you take 17 fittings off to get to the one that fails a pressure test you will be likeing teflon tape USED CORRECTLY just fine<br /><br />And you can never be sure till its got 90 # of steam and all the different metals are done doing there thing <br /><br />And then you dump the steam and fill it full of ice water to cool off what you just cooked Pump it out and start pounding in steam to cook the next batch of soap<br /><br />And you will be changeing out the sections of pipe that get chewed up from the wet steam LONG before the tape ever leaks <br /><br />tommays
I realized when making my previous comment that some engineer out there would read and comment. <br /><br />One thing I've learned in my career... seldom do engineers agree totally on anything. Somebody always has (in their mind) a better idea and that's very much OK. It's how ideas evolve.<br /><br />The previous owner of my boat followed your train of thought... on the fuel line to and from the fuel pump. Guess who ended up replacing what looked to be otherwise a brand new fuel pump? Fuel leaking in the bilge. Why, you ask? Loose fuel line connection?? No. Cracks in the casting. He used TEFLON TAPE and DOPE.<br /><br />But y'all can do whatever you want. Doesn't make it wrong, but may not make it right either.
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