Title pretty much says it all. here is the ring. I have been trying to set this up for literally weeks and I was priming it for hours and it finally started pumping water when I removed the nozzle. the nozzles are almost impossible for me to remove – my fingers bleed every time idk what they are saying with "Push the ring" because I push it HARD and still have to pull very very hard to get the tubing out. I have asked my family members and none of them can do it either.
I am truly at my wits end. am I going to have to buy a completely new pump? I just wanted to mist my snake…. this was not cheap.
by emartinm28
3 Comments
Cut off the damaged end. You probably had a debris blockage in the nozzle. Fresh end, fresh fitting.
It came out of the old fitting. It’s trash. The fitting is trash. Start fresh.
So, couple things.
1.) That fitting is dead, destroyed, kaput. Buy a new one.
2.) When re-using that tube, make sure you have excess, then cut off the last inch as straight as possible. Tube that distorted won’t seal well.
3.) buy a small open-ended wrench; a 10mm should probably do the trick. When you need to remove tubing the FIRST thing you do is PUSH THE TUBE IN, NOT OUT.
Then, and only then, you compress the plastic compression fitting with your wrench (gives you ~240 degrees of contact), and once the lip is compressed, while holding pressure, you THEN pull the tube out.
If you just pull tube while simultaneously pushing the release then you’ve already forced the internal ring (the metal piece currently stuck to your tube) into action and no amount of pulling will work without breaking something. You found this out the hard way.
If you got more questions, DM me.