How to get these off without breaking?

[carlyai]

My RO drinking water filter has a problem.

I've isolated it back to the pump output, but need to remove the pump output tube to test, but I can't remember how. I don't want to break it.

The blue circlip comes away easy enough, but then do you pull on the tube or the white plastic raised bit surrounding the tube?

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[eyecatcher]

Well I would ask myself...whats the circlip holding?

 

To me it looks like its retaining the the thicker part of the tube into that "T" junction...so on that basis its the thicker part that is likely to come away after the circlip is removed.

 

but in circumstances like this..I have a global nearby and I like to go down there and test on their display items....just think of it as you are testing the robustness of something rather than vandalising to destruction.

I have taken all manner of things apart at global and sukkapan just to find out fixing details and the like and no one was ever the wiser.

[chiang mai]

Does that label actually say, "Thailand Trusted Quality"!

[maxtwo]

Prise out the blue clip then push the connection back and pipe will come out.

maybe should of said collar round pipe into fitting the blue clip is a wedge that pulls collar onto the pipe.

[eyecatcher]

13 minutes ago, chiang mai said:

Does that label actually say, "Thailand Trusted Quality"!

I t could have said "Quality Contorl"   and that would have been more fitting i think.

[carlyai]

Prise out the blue clip then push the connection back and pipe will come out.
maybe should of said collar round pipe into fitting the blue clip is a wedge that pulls collar onto the pipe.

Yeah, thanks, thought that was the way, but have forgotten. If I remember now sometimes it's a bit stubborn to get the pipe out.

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[carlyai]

I t could have said "Quality Contorl"   and that would have been more fitting i think.

Seems like a pretty good filter and unit. Seems well made. Must have been imported from Australia.

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[chiang mai]

3 minutes ago, carlyai said:

Seems like a pretty good filter and unit. Seems well made. Must have been imported from Australia.

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I believe the labels were, the quality parts of the actual unit are very clearly British.

[maxtwo]

When you reassemble put bit of Vaseline on end pipe and rubber o ring to help it seal.

[weegee]

1 hour ago, chiang mai said:

I believe the labels were, the quality parts of the actual unit are very clearly British.

[carlyai]

Gave up. ☹ Whoever put this unit under the sink needs to be shot..... Called the installer before I break it all and throw it over the fence.

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[Crossy]

Chicken.

 

And don't let him use Vaseline on the O rings, silicone grease only :)

 

[carlyai]

It's a 6hr round trip for the installer or the place I bought my filters from. He said he will try and come on the weekend. If he doesn't get here, I'm going to redo the plumbing and power so that I can work on the unit outside the kitchen cupboard and on the kitchen floor. Too old and fat to be working in cupboards...and that's another reason why the knocked down cavity bricks inside the cupboards, where the hot water leaks were repaired have never been fixed. For the next life.

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[Crossy]

The small ring on our fitted gas hob has been on the "to do" list for xx months as it involves cupboard work, I'm just too old and fat. SWMBO isn't complaining much as she tends not to use the small ring.