Frequently Asked Questions About Domestic Refrigerator Repair:
How does a compression fitting work to hook the water line onto the fridge?
I have a refrigerator with an ice maker. It is all ready to be hooked up to the water supply. The only thing is, I do not know how to hook it up. Could you help me. The back of the refrigerator has the copper piping and some kind of screw or bolt or something on the end of it and the water supply for the ice maker hook up has the same kind of bolt or whatever it is called. I have tried to hook this up myself and have no idea what I am doing and keep getting a water leak at the bolt or whatever it is called.
If the nut you have fits the fitting on the valve, make sure it screws all the way down. Try this without the copper line inside. If the nut won't go all the way down you may have cross threaded it. In this case you may need a new one.
How the fitting works is by compression. With the fitting you should have a brass ring that will fit snuggly over the copper line. It almost looks like a small wedding band (if you've already compressed it so it won't slide on the copper line and it’s compressed in the wrong place you may have to use a pipe cutter to cut if off then get a new one at a hardware store). This ring needs to be over the copper line and in between the two parts you screwed together in the above paragraph.
On the end of the copper line to be fitted to the valve, first slide on the nut (so threads will meet together after) then the compression ring. Push the copper line as far as you can into the fitting on the fridge. Slide the ring down the copper line so it seats in tight to the valve. Then slide the nut down and screw it together. You will have to tighten the nut with a wrench enough so that the ring will compress to the fitting and the copper line.
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