A Swagelok Connections
Making Swagelok Connections
242 Maintaining Your GC
9 Remove the plug from the fitting. To connect the tubing, with nut and ferrules, to another
fitting, finger-tighten the nut, then use a wrench to tighten it 3/4 (1/8-inch fittings) or 1-1/4
(1/4-inch fittings) of a turn.
10 Both correctly- and incorrectly-swaged connections are shown in Figure 28. Note that the
end of the tubing in a correctly-swaged fitting is not crushed and does not interfere with the
action of the ferrules.
Figure 28. Completed fitting