Forum Archive: Posts by: spencer

My marginal plumbing skills have failed me yet again:
I promised to reorient a radiator 180 degrees so that instead of pointing in to the room it would fit snugly against the wall. However, to do that I simply removed the valve from the steam pipe, globbed on lots of dope, and re-tightened the valve until it pointed in the right direction, which was not as tight as it could have been. When I fired up the boiler of course the joint leaked.
Is there another way to do this simple job, some kind of washer or seal or tape I missed?