4 MISTAKES Everyone Makes When Using COMPRESSION FITTINGS
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Don't make these 4 mistakes when tightening up and working on compression fittings on copper and plastic pipe.
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Thank you for taking the time and care to make this. I'm better off for it now and can tidy up my project with confidence now! 😁
Amazing! I learned a lot from this video. (Been doing things wrong for over 40 years lol) Thankyou so much for educating an amateur.
Thanks for educating me I have never used joint compound, with compression fittings. Thanks again
Well I managed 2 of the mistakes fitting a sink at the weekend. Noticed a drip on the floor today and then saw this video. I'll be taking it apart and refitting at the weekend, cheers for the tips😂
Glad to see you mention the marking of tightened fittings. It was mentioned to me over 50 years ago as a worthwhile habit and I have always done it. I then go around a job afterwards to check for the marks (bright red is my preference). It has only saved me once but it was in the loft of a 3 story house where the consequences of a leak couldn't have been much worse. My preference is to do an initial tighten of the olive with the pipe slightly (~1mm) pulled back from being bottomed in the fitting so that all the tightening force acts on the olive and isn't (after the olive grips the pipe) shared with the pipe pressing onto the shoulder in the fitting. I then open it up to see that the olive is seated happily against the fitting (lots of people don't seem to appreciate that the interface between the olive and the nut isn't sealing anything). I then apply potable jointing compound and firm to final torque and mark it. I also prefer copper olives to brass - usually involved bunging out the olives that come with most fittings.
Many thanks from across the pond--great information, well presented, & humorous to boot!
Me personally I found this video very helpful and useful! Have a project I'm working on right now and was preferring to use the compression fittings so I'm going to take all his tips! Thanks great vid
Hi, many thanks for all your advice. We’ve just refurbished our shower and want to say how helpful your plumbing tips are.
Top tips from Mr pipe man himself! I keep telling the Mrs, it’s essential to have some pipe lubricant next to the bed, for emergency plumbing situations!😎
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Cheers ... Jointing compound.. need to find that. But I always put a wrap or two of PTFE tape on the olive of new fittings, just in case there is a small discontinuity (Roger, Skill Builder tip). Another tip I find useful is clean the pipe before fitting, with fine grit sand paper or one of those cleaner wire brush tools. can make a difference. Lastly another over tightening danger: stress can build up in the nut then one day it might crack and all hell will break loose when least expected, has happened to me.
Well done! Straight forward and easy to understand.
Very good advice and a well presented tutorial. Thank you.
Thanks for this. I've made all these mistakes!
❤cool advice,ive used furnox joint compound in the past, the o 10:4 10:49 only trouble is it sets like concrete after a while,making it difficult if you have to remove a fitting. My favorite fitting is a yorkshire or end feed ,love solder
Great video! I had to replace a mains stopcock attached to the blue 25mm mdpe pipe under the kitchen sink. Could not unscrew the nut to remove it. Had to use an angle grinder with a thin cutting disc to very carefully cut through the brass nut and olive underneath. A rotary tool would be safer, I think.
Cordless multi tool with metal cutting blade.
In all my years of DIY including working along side other trades including plumbers on refurb jobs I have never heard of this. Although I've never had a problem yet, it makes perfect sense and I'm all for good practice. Great video.
For me the best tip I ever learnt was to not place the copper tube hard up against the bottom of the fitting as when the olive grips the tube the nut will pull the tube into the fitting but wont allow a full seal around the olive so prior to tightening the nut back the tube out of the fitting by a couple of millimetre then tighten it up ..job done 👍
thats why i use ptfe tape - i cant be bothered pulling it back a mill or so... so i tighten it in place, pull it apart then add the ptfe tape which solves the issue you are talking about. cheers
Awesome stuff - would have been useful to me a few years back - did a bathroom refit at home - and had to convert a main pipe in the floor with a compression fitting I used a 22mm olive in an old water pile to convert it to 15mm - old 7/8 water It had the smallest leak but take ages to seal it.
you buy the old pipe olive ,good luck trying to fit a 22 mm olive on old pipe :)
So ... Don't overtighten... Don't undertighten... Great help, thanks!
just tighten it.... easy lol
Exactly! Then he says "and in order to make sure you get it just right.... you mark it with a T". LOL.
Another tip, turn off your water when you go on holis
Yeah - learned the hard way. But it was a compression fitting that failed with PTFE, that sealed well but was under tightened and popped off. Jointing compound is a bad idea on these because it may seal but might not be tight enough Best test is to tighten loosely, no compound, pressurise the pipe and stop if it starts to leak and just tighten enough to stop it leaking and then a few more flats. You should be able to undo a fitting and the olive should be able to spin but not move up or down, that's how you know it was just tight enough.
I turned the mains off and the stock cock leaked
In my youth, many years ago, we came back from holiday to find our carpets draped across the bushes in the garden. The neighbours had seen water coming out of the house because of a leak and had gone round to see if anyone had a key that fitted our house. I always close the stop tap when we go away!
Cool tip too
make sure the shutoff is newer and functions properly. Hate for you to turn the knob or flip a lever and it starts to leak at the shutoff or elsewhere, right before you're leaving to the airport 😂😂😂
Good point about low quality olives. Some might not have been annealed and therefor wont compress into the tapers properly. Just get them red hot and drop into cold water - so long as they are copper.
I recently had to use PTFE tape under and over the olive on some compression stop ends and hopefully this will hold up until I get my bathroom replaced and get a pro to get rid of the whole thing.
Just found your channel and started watching, you give good advise and are quite entertaining but I was a bit confused at first cos I thought Bradley Walsh had his own plumbing channel.
EXCELLENT advice. I am a hydraulic Engineer and I have spent most of my career training fitters how to avoid leaks in high pressure systems. I watched this video to find similarities. Everything you have said is bang on and CORRECT. In respect of under-tightening, we get the nut spun down to the point where it contacts the 'cutting ring' (Our ring cuts into the pipe - slight difference) and we refer to that as the 'fixed point'. That is the point at which all tolerances from threads, tapers diameter differences are allowed for. We then mark the nut and the pipe and turn 1&1/2 turns. That is our industry, yours may differ. We then put a high visibility mark on the pipe and nut. Before start up, all visual checks can be made easily. GREAT VIDEO
Cheers! Interesting to hear how you do it in other industries.
Excellent video - so glad I watched before attempting to use compression fittings. Quick question - can you still nip up a compression fitting that has jointing compound after it’s been in place for a week, or does the compound go off and crumble if you try this? I thought I’d tightened it enough, but after a few days it started to seep (not condensation). Thanks 👍
Great ! Wish I had seen this when I was a lot younger. Yes I learnt by bitter experiance overtightening the fittings. Ptfe tape actually on the olive makes a lot of sense. You learn something every day. I like the mark you make on the fitting once tightened. Next episode how to fix a leak in your blow up doll😅
Always great tips thanks
This is golden sir!! Thank you for the information and the laughs, my caravan should be sealed water tight now 😂
Fantastic thanks for sharing this really enjoyed watching and very funny and fun 😂👍🏻
very nice presentation, I'm fan. The tips are also worth watching & it's very well explained You had me with the tft tape. a Mistake that I would have made.
Caravan reference. Spot on. Exactly why I watched your video. Pipe leading to toilet is leaking from the top of the compression / isolation valve.
Thankyou mate great tips
Good video 🎉mate you shared valuable information experienced explains everything, keep up your sharing mind 🎉
I've used an olive puller several times and it's always worked really well. However that olive cutter looks even better.
thank you. great advice👍
Very good advice for non plumbers like myself. I usually cut the olive off with a hacksaw blade as you suggest, and carefully. Presumably leaving the previous olive on is not a good idea?
You can remake a joint with the old olive in place, if you cant remove it. Just reassemble the joint after applying jointing compound or PTFE tape to the olive. If you are a regular plumber, then olive removal tools arent too expensive to add to your kit.
I was once told by a plumber that the manufacturers spent £millions on R&D to get compression fittings to seal properly, so under no circumstances do such a stupid thing as put anything on the joint. Stood me in good stead for donkeys years. A fitting that's been overtightened to the extent that it leaks means removing the fitting and a section of pipe and starting again.
That may have been the option decades ago, but today 2023 the pipe and fittings as mentioned are imported and they're crap, they need all the help possible to effect a good permanent seal. Copper pipe made in the U.K in the old days was much thicker walled , and like for like fittings old against new weigh significantly less, thus there is that less brass. In practice I might add, I would far rather act on the advice of a working modern day plumber/heating engineer than and old fart that is decades out of touch! As for manufacturers spending millions on R&D, not these days especially imported stuff, it's cheap and cheerful to maximise profits.
@@MrChrissy1r You had my attention, right upto the point that you felt the need to descend into the gutter. I still actively use copper pipe - and compression fittings where necessary, too - and still don't suffer leakage issues. I guess you'll have to put it down to skill - something many modern plumbers clearly lack... And, btw, maybe you should get your mum to proofread your comments before you hit reply..?
I’ve used PTFE tape for years never had any issues 😂👍
Mechanical fittings do not need any type of dope. That would be like putting dope on a flare fitting. You just don't do it.
@@will_dohertytf did he say
Hi I'm a sparks and if you remember MICC cables which have a similar olive and gland system I had the same thing educating apprentices on not over tightening the olives because if they were over tightened and the cable was moved you lost a good earth as the outer sheath was the earth. Brilliant vid and good tips. I looked for the olive splitter that you sowed and could not fine that particular one. I would like to add that to my plumbing kit. In the past I have used a junior hacksaw very carefully to remove an olive not quite cutting through.
There is another type of olive cutter that looks like a large pair of pliers. One of the 'cutting' jaws of the plier is flat and you insert it inside the pipe. The other 'cutting' jaw is indeed a cutter and cuts the olive. The difference between the 'plier' type and the one shown in the video is that the 'plier' type is operated in line with the pipe instead of at right angles to it.
Nice one, helped me out 👍🏼
Great guy, very amusing and informative. Thank you lol 👍
I recently (a few days ago) found some "older" USA made 1/2" compression fittings and used one for a hose-bib / sillcock installation...no joining compound , no squeaks, no leaks...
Olive tip I was taught by an old school. If the olive is just so put something hard being it and tap firmly the other side and it just slides off. This really works.
Yep I've done that one a few times too! Pop on to Locals this Thursday for the livestream if you get a second: plumberparts.locals.com/support/promo/PLUMB1M or here for the live stream: plumberparts.locals.com/post/4240778/ale-army-raw
Great tips there! Plumber who did central heating install used no jointing compound, said it wasn’t necessary. Ok, but I specified chrome plated 15mm where visible in the lounge. Again, no jointing compound. Now I know that chrome is harder than brass so it would never bed into the pipe. They said tighten it up firmly and it’ll be ok. That’s what they did, and guess what??? Furry deposits around all the joints! Slow seepage between olive and pipe. I called them back and they said they’d return and fix it. That was two months ago. Still waiting…..
Problem is all fitting manufacturers state not to use third party sealers on their fittings and doing so will void warranties.
Thanks from australia mate.good info👨🔧
Another great video mate! Simple but effective for people! I have learned a lot from your videos ,not particularly from this one 😁 but love your videos and your talent in making them interesting! Looking forward for the next one!!! And yes I am one of those guys that have a drink after work and watch your videos until the end. 👍All the best, take care
Haha! Cheers Rob - enjoy your beer! Will chat about your comment on Locals this Thursday: plumberparts.locals.com/support/promo/PLUMB1M
I have done plumbing for over 30 years and have never used any type of jointing compound on compression joints, guess whet i also have never had to go back to repair a leak either, well apart from the time some one put a nail through the pipe, which apparently i had done two weeks prior to been called out
Bard agrees with you Paul
That doesn't mean that someone hasn't fixed it for you and you never knew that! But I want yo believe you so what are your thricks to avoid getting it undone!
@@antoniogalluccio4213 Maybe delete your post and try again after checking the spelling
Try to be more humble. And what you said just doesn't make sense. Delete yours instead!
Radiator valves still need PTFE though. Maybe this is where the confusion comes from as it's a common diy job. Love this video. Genuinely funny and love the messy work bench and crap osb shelves. That's how most of us role 😂 well done mate.
Make sure pipe fits and correct length, make sure both sides of the olive are on the pipe by giving it a nip and visually checking it. In tight spaces, I have used a fitting away from the joint to give the olive a squeeze so it cannot move. A few wraps of PTFE tape around Olive or potable water sealing paste where applicable and no problem. You are posh poetable water I have always said potable water (Drinking Water). Not to tight not to loose and never ever think your brilliant and do not need to double check everything, it will still get you every now and then. The amount of experts I have met in life at all things who cock up all the time because they know they are perfect and do not need to check! Everyone can get caught every now and then so check check check. I stripped and assembled a hot water tank bottom fitting three times resealing each time and it still leaked to find at two o’clock in the morning a cracked reducer fitting, I had used the old ones! I had purchased new ones but the old fittings were ok (Not). It was a home job as well.
Brilliant! I love your wit!
I have made thousands of compression fittings in multiple sizes and rarely ever used jointing compounnd because I didn't have any to hand. I had precious few leaks in all of those fittings. I have had to resort to PTFE tape on a limited number of occasions. Good informative video though.
Great video James. By the way, you had in fact wrapped the ptfe around the thread the correct direction, but did it the wrong way around the olive.
Apsolute quality teaching👊 I've seen so many ptfe tape joins around treads.exactly the same though what on earth is this😄👍👍👍cheers bud
Glad you enjoyed it mate. If you get a second, please pop along to my livestream on Locals this Thursday: plumberparts.locals.com/post/4240778/ale-army-raw
some great tips there thanks !
Nothing wrong with the direction you put that PTFE tape on, looked correct to me. Just when you said ‘same way you do the nut up’ your fingers were doing an untighten… now go stand in the corner and think about what you’ve done.
BLUB! 😂😂 Thank you sir!
Moved into a house and the central heating leaked. Lots of the olives were so lose I could turn them with my fingers. No way to drain the system. I added over 10 drain cocks and shut of valves so I could isolate the system and replaced whole joints or just olives. Great tips about paste and over tightening.
Keen diyer on tip 1 do you compress [tighten olive ] on pipe 1st before applying sealant
Many moons ago when a new version of the Electrical Witing Regs came out with major changes to Earth bonding we had to use conductive PTFE tape on plumbing fittings, but I believe the requirement was removed.
Good stuff!! Thanks!
Great video james very informative
I did that using the fernox jointing gear but i didn't use that much, just on the chamfer and smidge on the olive as i didn't want it in the rad system
Hey PlumberParts! Thank you for the video. Great Tip with the Olive Cutter tool. You are Plumber Knight! :)
Great tip using the magic marker to mark nuts that have been tightened. I will use that for sure! Thank you. BTW: I usually use Silicone Grease instead of Jet Lube V2 Plus. I wonder if there any down side to using that instead?
Is sillicone grease wras approved?
V2 is liquid ptfe - always works great for me.
Love this guy 🎉
Wow...never knew these great tips!
Great videos. I just bought a 3/4" compression ball valve to replace my home main shutoff just in case my shutoff at the street doesn't close enough to solder. However, I just noticed it doesn't have a packing nut under the lever! Never seen this before. Is it something new or just cheaply made therefore I should buy one with? Thanks so much!
Good tips there , thanks
I spent most of my career doing stainless tubing. If you need compound or tape you should find another trade. Lubricating the joint allows you to over tighten the joint.
AS he said....the quality of imported copper - brass fittings are not as good as the older stuff, so tape or jointing compound is advisable.
Excellent thanks 👍
Great tips, I'm not a plumber but i didnt know that there was a special past available now! What I've used to prevent the squeeking when tightening up the compression joints is appyling a very small amount of Vaseline (petroleum jelly) just a smear like you put on your lips around the olive and pipework and also a little on the threads this will make the olive slide and seat very smoothly, you just know that its not going to leak. Also if in future you have to undo it, it would come undone very easily, great for when replacing isolating valves and radiators valves, etc. I understand that vaseline is non toxic But better to use new approved stuff if used for drinking water. I wouldn't use it on these plastic push fit though as it might cause the rubber O-ring to deteriorate quicky.
vaseline degrades mate and is water miscible makeing it not a good choice - Tip from radio engineers working on seas salty outside stuff - Use Copperease on everything and Marmite on everything else. (Both Unobtainium in Thailand sadly)
@@ebaystars copper grease is good for automotive applications as anti seize compound and good at high temperatures. However I think its toxic to micro organisms and harmful to aquatic life.
good point! I will stick to marmite on toast we dont drink tap water in thailand and usually use bottled water everyone here has to have a 2000 litre reserve tank and auto-pump because the idiots cannot supply pressure at night when there is no users as the pipes underground will blow off. It's a nightmare @@mrpat2563
Vaseline seems to work well
@@santorini8423 like I said I'm not a plumber I won't toutch anyone else's only mine! I'm an engineer so do understand basics of most things or study it first before doing anything. I can strip down and rebuild a car engine etc, also fully understand how electrical systems work etc.
They sqeek because the machined threads in brass need lubrication. A little oil will do that. Only one face of the olive is a sealing face. The face the nut runs on is not a sealing face.
I am so glad you mentioned at 7:05 about PTF tape round the thread . I come from a family of plumbers and it makes me angry when I see that bodge up under sinks and basins usually fitted by Kitchen fitters (Grrr!) I used to see it a lot when as a sparks I cross bonded pipes.
I had recently changed the bathroom sink and tap but found that the copper pipes were angled and i didnt like how the braided tubes for the taps were bent around to suit the new tap location. So i changed it to nice straight lengths of copper pipe, brand new olives and fittings etc. I sent a pic to the plumber just to show if ive done the right thing (he is a friend as well just to see if ive done it all right) and I said i also used the fernox potable water jointing compound around the thread and also on the olive and he said I didn't need to use it at all because it was new fittings and to not really use it for new fittings. Just wondering if this is the case for any plumbers here? Like is it only for use on an existing fitting thats been fitted and is causing a leak, is it bad to use it on new fittings? I personally found it good to use because of the way everything was awkward to get to, it was easier to apply this than to wrap around tape and when tightening the fitting it seemed to then unscrew the connections to the tap that could only be screwed in by hand! So the compound helped me not have to tighten everything super tight, also as a diyer it takes a while to know when enough tightening is enough so its a slightly few less turns with the stuff applied to give it a watertight seal, making it ok to give it a bit more welly if needed instead of overtightening. I wanted to do it right as I had caused a massive leak before with the connections to the bath taps, I overtightened the speedfit to metal thread connection and it eventually cracked after a few months, water pouring downstairs XD So since then ive avoided eBay taps and overtightening lol
Brilliant, cheers! Can I use FERNOX LS-X as jointing compound?
Who knew again? Great tips. Thanks.
No PTFE at all. One thing which not mentioned is what I always do. When first sliding on the olive and entering it and the pipe into the fitting is just before tightening, is pull the pipe out about 1/16". Reason for this is, if you need to remove the pipe later for whatever reason and refit it the pipe will not bottom out before the already compressed olive
The problem is actually the crappy olives which come with the joints. I'm not a professional but I have been doing odd plumbing jobs since the 1960s. Compression joints were never a problem then. You just screwed it up finger tight then gave it a quarter turn or so and you had a joint that would never leak.The olives were a very soft gold coloured metal. Today the olives are a harder more copper coloured metal. I always now use PTFE tape as you describe or at least one joint will leak and will not seal. I went into an old shop about 15 years back and they had a big box full of gold coloured olives so I bough a handful. After that I did not need any sealer until they ran out.
you can buy pure copper olives (vs the brass ones which come with the fitting) - guessing these are the ones you are describing (they are softer and more reddish in colour than brass)
That olive cutters a nice tool to have. I'm not a plumber by trade (IT tech) but I have done alot of plumbing over the years and never bothered with jointing goop but having seen it I can see why you might want to use it as lube more than anything. Normally if its a stubborn joint thats decided to weep, I've just put half a dozen wraps of PTFE to seal the deal but thats been the exception not the rule.
I've always used jointing compound but just a thin trace, not like icing on a sponge cake. And put some on the pipe before sliding the olive on because you're then sealing another potential leak point.
Learned something new about the PTFE tape - thanks!!! #enlightened
If I put compound on a compression it was an instant fail or a rap across the knuckles with a pair of sixes. North Thames Gas apprenticeship. 4 year apprenticeship, 18 years working. How times have changed. Surprised you did not say LS-X, a must on them fooking doughnuts :) Also under tightening is always better than over, as you can always nip it up, over, no chance.
A couple of things, it shouldn't be needed but i also like to use a bit of compound, especially if the olive's brass, getting the tightening right takes practice, and there are olive pullers available as well as splitters.
Another great video. Thank you.
I've done a bit of plumbing around the house. Never even heard of jointing compound, I've always used PTFE tape (in the wrong place). I've always used a pipe cleaing brush though which seems to have given me a decnet seal. Next time I'll do as you've suggested though even if its only as far as putting the tape in the right place, so thanks for this :)
I was always taught from my beginning days of working that any brass or fittings that have that rounded shape inside or beveled type mating surfaces you don’t need or use tape but if you want u can use a little pipe dope but it’s not necessary. And I’ve done thousands of jobs over forty plus years with no problems. I’m sure what he is saying works and it might even be better but it’s just another step and time in the long run. I just put them together and tighten them down. That’s it.
Nice one thanks
Brilliant info, cheers.
Glad it was helpful! If you want to talk LIVE with me about how flippin' amazing this video was, pop on to Locals for this Thursday's livestream! plumberparts.locals.com/support/promo/PLUMB1M
@@plumberparts I'm not a plumber but I like to fix the little bits myself, I get great satisfaction from fixing the little bits and of course saves money. I know my limitation and understand I'm not a professional. Keep up with the help. Many thanks.
As an addition , best practice for making gas compression fittings (which tends to be the gold standard) was to go through the process just described ,then disassemble and re apply a smear of paste around the squished olive on the pipe. I always tended to do this for LPG because it just wants to leak. ( I'm not advocating that DIYers do gas pipework , just highlighting best practice which also applies to wet pipework )
DIYers doing GAS WORK, what could possibly go wrong?????????
In the States you can't use compression fittings on gas. Nor can you sweat gas pipes. Flare only
good tip
as i am in uk i would report the bad pipework and who installed it to the gas safe register ,a timed leak test has to be done before and after any work carried out .no one can do diy in uk to any gas instalations ,lpg should also have timed leak test done ..
Just to be clear again , if you read my comment again it is NOT to encourage people to do gas work (as i clearly stated originally ) but to highlight best practice for gas so that DIYers can make the perfect WATER joint. A Rolls Royce engineers once showed me best practice on jet engines for torqueing down nuts. He wasn't advocating that i started fixing jet engines and nor did i take it this way. It was just good advice that carried over to automotive repairs
We saw over-tightening. under-tightening, ways to mark joints not yet tightening but I certainly missed any discussion of how to tell the joint is tightened just right. Is there a type of torque wrench for this?
Great video and its made with humour
Never knew this... but as an insurance policy I always smeared some plumber's putty on the copper pipe before sliding the olive onto it, then I would also smear the olive with some more plumber's putty before bringing the nut over it and tightening the nut (holding the other part of the fitting with another spanner) to fully compress the olive and form a strong watertight seal - I've never had a leak ! lol
Only use for plumbing putty is what it is designed for, sticking glass panes into windows. Sealing compound works better, and you can at least undo it later on without needing to cook the putty out.
Memory refresher for a non plumber. Cheers.
Very good ideas.
Brilliant thank you
I would sometimes use a bit of olive oil on the olive and the thread, but always swop the brass olive for a copper one as we had loads at work. Also, always use a proper spanner on the nut and not an adjustable. I think I found one of your untightened joints in a hospital after a cleaner hit the fitting with a trolley ?
I've never had a problem without jointing compound (ok, not never, but always get it to tighten!). Tend to use ptfe on bigger nuts.
Yes but as he says it's that extra bit of safety, the fitting quality aren't as good as they use to be and say it's slightly of or hit or whatever,vthe jointing compound is a good idea
Old schools tip use Hammer on olives by tapping olive while rotating pipe till loose and slides off easy mate
Good tip!
Curious to know what you think of blue liquid PTFE in a bottle (screwfix sell it) instead of using PTFE white tape?
Great video, made my live easier:) Many thanks !!
Hi Al. Sorry to be a pain but I've used push fit outside and after ten years they degrade. They crumble due to the weather sun etc, But yes they are easily replaced as you say. I suppose its a balance and upto the individuals preference. Regards Duncan.
Thank You...I am a 66-year-old lifelong general-purpose Repairman (plumbing, Electrician, Electronics, mechanic ect.) and I have always had annoying problems with compression fittings.....I'm probably too close to dying to help me a whole lot now but your tips were great...However, It still looked to me like you were winding your Teflon sealing tape the opposite direction than you would turn your compression nut when tightening (I apologize if I'm wrong...I am a bit dyslexic) I'm a Hillbilly in the southern Coal Fields of West Virginia (Almost Heaven with friendly people and at least 10 military-style guns per household).....Love your accent and your teaching style