Liquid PTFE cure time?

[Styx]

Anyone have any idea what the approximate cure time for "No Nonsense" liquid PTFE is?

Cheers,

Styx

[Ed Sirett]

I've started using this. It's not a easy to use as the Loctite product which has a nice bellows style squeezable container.

I would have said that used in the right place you need not worry about setting time. Used to do tricks (like setting screwed elbow fitting at the right position as opposed to tight) you might need it to leave it a day to harden.

[Styx]

Thanks, Ed. Yes, I agree that it's not very easy to use.

Well, after about 18 hours it doesn't seem to have cured at all -- to be fair, it was pretty cold last night so that's possibly had an effect on it.

I'll take another look at it later today to see how it's going.

Styx

[Kevin Poole]

Agreed: I resorted to trying to balance it upside down on its cap between uses because it's so viscous.

AIUI, it hardens in some metal-catalysed way, so in the confines of a joint it may well have cured. The other implication of this is that it would be no use hoping to use it to seal plastic to plastic.

I used it for almost all of the appropriate joints in a complete ch installation, and was very impressed. Not a single leak, even from the usually difficult valve tail to radiator joints. I did some of these without ptfe tape, and some with it (where the valve threatened to disappear entirely into the rad), but all were successful.

[The Medway Handyman]

I've found the same thing, it works well, but the tube needs a firm hand.

I'm not sure it cures at all. Whilst Loctite would set & hold a fitting in a certain position, I don't think liquid PTFE is meant to do the same.

JMO

[Dave]

Will it work on a frying pan?

Dave