Breech plug taping

oldwun · 01-13-2007, 06:45 PM

I have noticed that some of you use teflon tape to wrap your breech plug. I have always used the Knight grease and I have never had a problem removing the plug. Someone must have had the problem or why else would this have been tried. Anybody got pics?

cayugad · 01-13-2007, 07:00 PM

Well it is just a matter of what you like to use. If you use the grease and are happy with that, why change? I personally give the plug a wrap with white teflon tape and then paint the outside of the tape with breech plug grease. This is what I found works for me. I am not saying my method is better then yours, only that its the method I use.. Good luck with your rifle.

sabotloader · 01-13-2007, 07:21 PM

oldwun

I am a tape user, have been for several years now. I do not use any grease at all. I prefer the grease because there is no mess or fus with cleaning the grease from the threads. I also have no worrys about possibly contaminating part of the powder with grease.

If you use tape is is important how you wrap, where you wrap,and how it fits in your gun. When you put the BP in if you feel the tape dragging or balling up then take it back out and re-wrap. There basically is three differnt colors of tape the color indicate thickness, white being the thinnest, pink in the middle, and yellow fairly thick. I use both the pink and the white - pink on some guns and white on others... The key for me is to overwrap the nose of the BP - pat the tape down on the face of the BP - when you install it install it snug - NOT TIGHT but snug, squeezing the tape on the face up against the flange in the barrel... ifyou stop the blowback at the face of the BP then you do not have to worry about the threads of the BP... the new TC breech plugs are working on the same principleonly using an "O" ring instead of tape.

To clean the bP barrel threadsyou simply push in a fiber brush, twist it and pull it back out...

outdoorslover · 01-13-2007, 07:32 PM

If the breech plug grease works, why change it? It's not that expensive and lasts along time.

geoffh · 01-14-2007, 07:20 AM

Dave, I'm sure this question has been asked before: Is there a material difference between this breechplug tape and typical teflon plumbers tape?
Isee there is a color coding for thickness and wouldn't be surprised to find none of those to be the same thickness as the 'generic' tape, but other thanthat is there a real known difference? Has it been tried?

lemoyne · 01-14-2007, 09:04 AM

Either way works fine it just depends on if you would rather clean the threads or mess with getting the tape right, I have used both methods and use the grease on inlines and the tape on the rest. Lee

cayugad · 01-14-2007, 09:10 AM

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ORIGINAL: geoffh

Dave, I'm sure this question has been asked before: Is there a material difference between this breechplug tape and typical teflon plumbers tape?
Isee there is a color coding for thickness and wouldn't be surprised to find none of those to be the same thickness as the 'generic' tape, but other thanthat is there a real known difference? Has it been tried?

I use the simple plumbers Teflon tape you get for a little over $1.00 a roll at Harbor Freight. In fact they had a special on it and I bought a tube of ten. I really could not say if there is a material difference. A difference in thickness, like Sabotloader pointed out is for sure. I also had some of the pink T/C tape and actually found it too thick for some of the rifles...