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Posted by Jeffy3 on January 29, 2007, 8:53 am
On Jan 28, 1:47 pm, trad...@optonline.net wrote:
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> > ?There are no screws on a compression fitting. Do you mean the nut?
> > if so,
>
> > > put the nut over the tubing, slip the ferrule over the tubing and leave
> > > about 1/4" showing. Slip that into the female end of the fitting and
> > > tighten the nut.Thanks. I meant a compression nut. The compression nuts
which came
> > with the kit had the ferrule already inside the nut. Should the nut
> > be able to completely screw onto the female end of the T fitting? I
> > can't get it on more than halfway, and there's a slow drip coming out
> > of the other side of the nut (not the side closest to the T fitting).
> > What is normal cause of a drip? Not tight enough? Too tight?
> > Ferrule in wrong place?The nut should go on most, or all of the way. The
ferrule should be
> seperate from the nut. As Edwin stated, the nut goes on the tubing,
> then the ferrule, and then you insert the tubing as far as it will go
> into the fitting. While keeping some pressure on it to make sure it
> stays all the way in, tighten down the nut, which compresses the
> ferrule against the tubing. If you botched it, easiest thing is to
> cut of the end of the tubing, get a new ferrule and redo.
Are there alternate names for these ferrules? I don't recall seeing
anything by that name in the hardware store where the compression nuts
were.
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