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AC Condenser needs fixing 200

posted by  someone claiming to be J. Calhoun on  Tue Mar 18 11:36 CST 2003 [RELATED]

Not a hose, it's a metal fitting. There's a ferrule that slips over the tubing, and the end of the ferrule sticks into the main body of the fitting. There's a nut that crushes the ferrule radially down onto the OD of the tube. (Obviously the OD of the tube has to be clean and free from large scratches.) What you would want is one of these with the fitting's ID equal to the tube OD on either side of the flanged joint where the broken weld is.

They sell something similar in the hardware store called "compression fitting". You can look at these if you want to see what a Swagelok basically looks like. But don't attempt to use the ones you buy in the hardware store for plumbing, on an A/C system. You need the actual Swagelok brand if you want it to seal and hold up to the vibration.

I'm sure Swagelok has a website.






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