Broke my New R/O unit

[thoroughbred]

So I just got a Coralife Pure-Flo II from my LFS. I set it all up and turned on the water, things seemed to be working except for there was a leak in the fitting connecting faucet to the tube going to the unit. I went to tighten it more and I stripped the threads on the plastic fitting.

Now it leaks a heck of alot more. What should I do?

 

[veni vidi vici]

Try teflon tape,and make sure you dont get tape to close to the end.Loose piece of teflon tape inside of RO unit cant be good.

 

[ameno]

you can probably go to lowes or HD and by a fitting to work, I did that with my unit for an outside facet connection. Usually teflon tape dosen't seal very good on plastic threads under pressure. just went thru that on a new house addition, If you cant find a new connection and this is a perminent connection Lowes carries a plumbers type putty thats in a yellow tube, not sure the name of it, it's higher price then the rest that they have, but seals great.

 

[sign guy]

to add to what ameno said I would get a brass fittting the nylon ones allways strip out after a litte time

 

[nietzsche]

its leaking where the faucet is? if it is, mine was doing it too, but i noticed i was missing one of those o-rings (i think thats what theyre called), i got one and it stopped the leaking.. so maybe youre missing one?