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  • čas přidán 17. 10. 2008
  • How to apply plumber's hemp and paste for sealing up pipe joints.

Komentáře • 73

  • @rogiervanderpeijl4947
    @rogiervanderpeijl4947 Před 3 lety +7

    Thank you for the instruction. Had a problem with a fitting of a water pipe that wouldn't stop leaking. Couldn't get it fixed with the teflon tape. The hemp and paste, with your instruction, worked like a dream!

  • @rolsen888
    @rolsen888 Před 7 lety +7

    I reviewed a lot of similar videos, but your video was for me a REVELATION!!! ... These brilliant 45 degrees - technology breakthrough, so gracefully, solves many problems with scrolling flax, with an excess of flax, this is exactly what I needed. After each sealing up pipe joints I will respectfully remember You !!!!

  • @frecmenta5114
    @frecmenta5114 Před 3 lety +8

    The paste is applied over the hemp usually. Its for anti rust or too much grip in case you'll have to unscrew in future. Hemp is wonderful. On water pipes gets swollen and seals the threads. Teflon is junk !

  • @bamako1111
    @bamako1111 Před 12 lety +6

    Thanks for this helpfull video. I'll redo my joints tomorrow following your advices. This will do. Thx from Luxembourg

  • @nicointhe70s
    @nicointhe70s Před 5 lety +11

    In France in most case (except for gaz and air) we use oakum and paste because it's 100% leak proof if it's well-made and you can turn your fitting a bit if you made a mistake it won't leak . All the plumbers I know use this method.
    Anyway everybody's free to work his own way some prefer Teflon, other prefer past and oakum, some like scelent...
    Peace 🙏
    PS: you don't need to break the thread on galvanise steel pipe and black iron pipe. Only brass fitting need it.

  • @misterjimminyman
    @misterjimminyman Před 5 lety +2

    Very nicely explained and demonstrated thank you.

  • @mrkrause3
    @mrkrause3 Před měsícem

    Great job!

  • @CandidZulu
    @CandidZulu Před rokem +1

    Some say to take the hacksaw and make little burrs on the thread for the hemp to grab onto.

  • @user-zu5jl7hw4h
    @user-zu5jl7hw4h Před 2 lety +1

    As a cabinet maker I need to join some pipes from time to time usually when I make kitchens. I have been using Teflon tape for years, but this last time the pipe just wouldn't stop making drops and I made three reattempts. I'm going to try this way tomorrow. PS One of the reasons I use Teflon is the drop in pipe quality and that a colleague of mine cracked the pipe with using too much threads.

    • @jtoker9758
      @jtoker9758 Před rokem

      Get rectorseal tru blue pipe dope, as it is a sealant. Put a thin layer of pipe dope on the threads. Then wrap in teflon. Then apply another layer of pipe dope. This should do the trick.

    • @ethanwasme4307
      @ethanwasme4307 Před rokem

      bruh that a lot of pipes that aren't to code 😢

  • @sveaemayr7191
    @sveaemayr7191 Před 3 lety +1

    Great! Just what I needed. Thank you very much! 👍

  • @zuchnicky
    @zuchnicky Před 10 lety +2

    Nice work! Thanks, it helps me. I always turn hemp wrong direction :D

  • @rodgerjon
    @rodgerjon Před 5 lety +3

    very good. im a master plumber in teas and just finish a big job in isreal. they do it almost the same but put the hemp on first and then tephlon tap after because some valves there cannot work if any pipe dope enters the valve

  • @Denvermorgan2000
    @Denvermorgan2000 Před 7 lety +3

    You're can booger up the threads a bit too it will help keep the flax from getting pushed out of the joint when tightening.

    • @Denvermorgan2000
      @Denvermorgan2000 Před 7 lety

      Some fittings have threads that snag the flax so it get pulled into the joint better.

  • @Xenick289
    @Xenick289 Před 2 lety +1

    Thanks. Very informative.

  • @slantsix9783
    @slantsix9783 Před 2 lety +3

    Is that REGULAR hemp, as in ANY hemp ROPE, or TWINE, which I can buy anywhere hemp rope or twine is sold? Or is it a type of hemp that's made specifically for plumbing thread sealer? My hardware stores and big-box stores do not sell any type of hemp or lamp wick that's specifically made for sealing NPT pipes -- only the teflon tape and dope.

  • @jforrestal365
    @jforrestal365 Před 5 lety +1

    Great video, just what I wanted to know 👌

  • @dannyledesma
    @dannyledesma Před 5 lety +1

    Brilliant video. Thank you - this really helped me.

  • @ianrimmer1968
    @ianrimmer1968 Před 8 měsíci

    Excellent video 👍

  • @FinnRenard
    @FinnRenard Před 2 lety +1

    Make sure to start with the hemp, and from the end of the pipe. Make sure no hemp goes inside the pipe. Then, afterwards, apply the paste on top of the hemp.

  • @tontonchampagnare7187
    @tontonchampagnare7187 Před 3 lety +1

    Thank you very much

  • @bubblekuku5992
    @bubblekuku5992 Před 3 lety +2

    For thermal installation-radiator pipe with Hemp or teflon tape?

  • @allanpennington
    @allanpennington Před 4 lety +2

    A plumber told me he knows if a DIY'er did a job like this because they used thread tape and not hemp and they have leaking joints. He explained that the water actually swells the hemp and seals the joint. Thread tape is used on the inside of a female nut connector as well as the hemp on the male threads.

    • @deepakkunwar8218
      @deepakkunwar8218 Před 2 lety

      I don't use hemp but I use loctite and doesn't leak. So am I a DIY'er? 😂

  • @cyeamaculture8486
    @cyeamaculture8486 Před 2 lety +3

    does it matter in which direction you lay it around the thread? the pipe goes on clockwise, so should the hemp be laid anti clockwise?

    • @theskull9960
      @theskull9960 Před rokem +1

      No it should go clockwise as well, and be careful that you end the hemp at the end of the thread, so the joint can catch the hemp as it turns and not leak.

  • @44winstone
    @44winstone Před 13 lety +2

    great very helpful much appreciated

  • @thedukeofno
    @thedukeofno Před rokem +1

    very interesting. Been dealing with a very slight, yet very stubborn weep. I was wondering why there's no taper on the threads here in Finland, and every joint is made up with hemp.

  • @bramhagyani5018
    @bramhagyani5018 Před 5 lety +2

    One of my senior fitter tought me one hack, how to seal BSP threads used in water piping. Apply oil paint & wound cotton thread (which is used in grossary shops) in BSP threads to give strong & leakproof joint.

    • @user-zu5jl7hw4h
      @user-zu5jl7hw4h Před 2 lety

      Problem with paint is that one day you might need the disassemble the parts and it's going to be much more difficult

  • @jtoker9758
    @jtoker9758 Před rokem

    Which is the proper protocol when using hemp and paste, to smoke the hemp before or after teh plumbing job?

  • @renerasmussen1962
    @renerasmussen1962 Před 6 lety +3

    Can you please show what paste you used? It's exactly what we're looking for but can't find it in local home improvement stores. Thank you

  • @eddie054
    @eddie054 Před 12 lety +5

    Is that why they call it "pipe dope"?

  • @mertenspeter4680
    @mertenspeter4680 Před 2 lety +1

    You forget to mention the direction in which you put the hemp on the tube.

  • @abdel-hadikaddour8400
    @abdel-hadikaddour8400 Před 4 lety +1

    Thanks , bravo

  • @IRELAND_SAYS_NO
    @IRELAND_SAYS_NO Před rokem

    His thread was loose . You should be only able to spin a fitting 4.5 times before it's (hand tight) ... Not all the way to the last thread ever . That's why they are tapered .

  • @murrayhorn8817
    @murrayhorn8817 Před rokem

    I'm unsure about the paste. The hemp expands once it gets wet, sealing the joint. Won't the paste inhibit the wetting of the hemp? I've always done it without paste.

    • @tenoriovinz1995
      @tenoriovinz1995 Před rokem

      Did mine with petroleum jelly, one day later still no leaks
      Plus did not even have to tighten it that much

  • @EntropyDivideByZero
    @EntropyDivideByZero Před 14 lety +2

    Hi, Thanks for a great video, I had tried to make a joint myself and I know that it is wrong.
    However I thought that the hemp has to be fully wetted before applying to the pipe by drawing it through a blob of paste. What do you think.
    I would like to get the further details from the email that is mentioned in the video.

    • @mrvelleful
      @mrvelleful Před 6 lety +2

      EntropyDivideByZero Eight years late! But I will give my answer :) I attended plumbing school in Denmark for a short while, and we did a lot of these installations in school. We did not wet the hemp, and I dont see a good reason to do it. The hemp is easier to work with when clean and dry. You want to stretch the "lump" of hemp into a long one. Ie make the same lumb reach many turns around the thread. I think that will be much harder to do if its greased up first. The layer is relatively thin so I think the paste will penetrate sufficiently without any effort.

  • @wadedeimler1854
    @wadedeimler1854 Před 2 lety +1

    slap some of that blue leak lock on it and be done with it

  • @DonkeyBuzzard
    @DonkeyBuzzard Před rokem

    what is paste? vaseline?

  • @Psychopathis
    @Psychopathis Před 4 lety +5

    sorry but you apply the hemp incorrectly. You mislead people as such with incomplete sealing that is bound to leak way sooner than it should. When you separated like that (1:24) you destroyed the parallel position of the fibers and messed it up. Fibers should be completely clean and neat, just as they are when you buy it. That way it will follow naturally the pipe threading and will not end up knoting in there and get pushed out as you tight up the joint. Also the hemp piece should be pulled out when turned on the threads so it will be tight and not rotate with the female threads. If its not messed up, its not easy to break when pulled, so you can apply some force on the pulling while threading it.

  • @philiphengcy
    @philiphengcy Před 4 lety +1

    what paste do you use ?

  • @eriklethdanielsen3968
    @eriklethdanielsen3968 Před 2 lety +1

    Teflon is toxic C8 PFAS
    Hamp and past is moutch better

  • @TheNimshew
    @TheNimshew Před 6 lety +1

    Now that is a true sealent! I do have issues with that application. Okay, the hemp swells up when it's hit by moisture, just like in a lead joint. What happens when the hemp deteriorates? Redo the whole system? I can not believe that plumbers in Europe use non tapering threads. Maybe in the former eastern bloc, where it was difficult to get proper fittings. But Germany? I doubt it.

    • @ryry5249
      @ryry5249 Před 5 lety

      forty two our threads taper?

  • @daveoseas
    @daveoseas Před 5 měsíci

    Every plumber I've seen scratches threads with hacksaw etc...

  • @arncj18
    @arncj18 Před rokem

    soap and hemp way better than anything these marketing animals invent

  • @minniefontein1665
    @minniefontein1665 Před 4 lety +1

    Why not using Teflon tape? Is using an organic fibre such as mentioned in combination with a mineral sealer safe for consumption? Imagine all that stuff getting into your drinking water ?

  • @ziggysb1
    @ziggysb1 Před 7 lety

    hallo, not downstream , opposite direction!

  • @Alexandru3403
    @Alexandru3403 Před 4 lety

    Ok

  • @joelboston5553
    @joelboston5553 Před 5 lety +3

    So this video is around 4 minutes long. On a typical job on a typical day I can do at least 16 make ups in less than 4 minutes that all hold 200psi test pressure. Teflon tape and paste on tapered threads. I have no idea why they hold on to this archaic method.
    57 seconds ago

    • @henrikcrusell7491
      @henrikcrusell7491 Před 3 lety

      This guy is clearly not a professionel, you can tell by the way he handles the materiales. A professional plumber will do the same fitting in less than 30sec... See instruktions video on unipak.dk

  • @Clembo
    @Clembo Před 8 lety +17

    If you run out of flax, you can always use Donald Trump's wig.

  • @theencanador1348
    @theencanador1348 Před 5 lety +1

    year 1880 just called saying wants the hemp back.

  • @sa_master
    @sa_master Před 6 lety

    у каждого свой метод 😉
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  • @user-uh2uw7ey3b
    @user-uh2uw7ey3b Před rokem +1

    Im a plumber and this is painful to watch

  • @magnushammargren270
    @magnushammargren270 Před 7 lety +6

    Not perfect... Scratch, wrap the hemp then paste. Dont finish wrapping at the pipes end etc.

    • @ryry5249
      @ryry5249 Před 5 lety

      Magnus Hammargren and that threaded pipe was a bit loose when he dry screwed it on.

  • @ReinLable
    @ReinLable Před 7 lety +1

    pretty sure that's flax..

  • @psiheia1
    @psiheia1 Před 6 lety +2

    amateur

  • @rusandrei306
    @rusandrei306 Před 5 lety

    Stop. Stop stop