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Alternative fix - brass fitting Posted by Bill Homer [Email] (#3427) [Profile/Gallery] (more from Bill Homer) on Wed, 8 Oct 2003 21:09:37 In Reply to: The one btwn the air filter and the turbo., Diamond Dave, Wed, 8 Oct 2003 09:34:43 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
It's possible to repair what you have, depending on what is actually broken and what resources you have available. Last weekend I fixed my brother's C900T which snapped a plastic fitting off of its intake tube - this one for the hose that runs to the APC controller, possibly similar to what you broke off on your 9000T. I went to a good hardware store (an OLD one) that has lots of miscelaneous stuff and found some bins with various sizes of brass fittings for pipes and plastic tubes, i.e. for ice makers and gas lines. I came up with a fitting that I believe was a 1/8-inch barbed fitting (goes into the hose) on one end and a 1/8-inch threaded male pipe fitting on the other (actually about 5/16 - 3/8 outside diameter, 1/8 on the inside). I enlarged the hole in the remainder of the plastic fitting with a 5/16 or 3/8 inch drill (can't recall exactly) then cut a thread into it with the appropriate inch-sized tap. Threaded the brass fitting into the plastic fitting with a dab of silicone sealer, pushed it into the rubber grommet in the tube, and it's better (and stronger) than new! This cost all of 89 cents and really saved the day!
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