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Installation
Step 6. Attaching a SWAGELOK™ Tee to tubing
Step 6. Attaching a SWAGELOK™ Tee to tubing
If you need to supply gas to more than one inlet or detector module from a single
source, use a
SWAGELOK ™ Tee near the inlet or detector manifolds.
Materials needed:
❐ 1/8-inch preconditioned copper tubing
❐ Tubing cutter
❐ 1/8-inch
SWAGELOK nuts and front and back ferrules
❐ 1/8-inch
SWAGELOK Tee
❐ Two 7/16-inch wrenches
❐ 1/8-inch
SWAGELOK cap
1. Cut the tubing where you want to install the Tee. Connect the tubing and Tee
with a
SWAGELOK fitting. See Figure 12.
Figure 12. Attaching a SWAGELOK Tee
2. Measure the distance from the Tee to the GC inlets and then attach copper
tubing to the open Tee ends with
SWAGELOK fittings.
3. You can install a
SWAGELOK cap to the open end of a Tee if you do not plan
to connect tubing to it immediately.
Copper tubing SWAGELOK
fitting
SWAGELOK Tee