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Ramsaye
There's a seal on mcalpine stuff that we basically tighten by hand and give a nip. You shouldn't need to PTFE it or anything like that.
You could just replace it with a new shallow trap like that, but stripping it to see the cause is the first thing but it also looks like its running up hill from the photo too but that shouldn't cause the leak more running away.