1/4 RO to garden hose fixture?

[Anonymous]

This seems easy, don't know why I can't seem to solve it.

I just want to attach my RO (1/4 inch hose) to the same place my washing machine attaches, with a y-valve. It is a garden hose type faucet, 3/4 inch.

I found what I thought was the right thing at home depot, but when I took it apart at home it had a little metal ring in the 1/4 end that I guess gets forced into the tubing, and is made for metal tubing, maybe?

Can somebody point me in the right direction?

 

[Anonymous]

It should be "hose to 1/4 RO fitting," not the other way around, Dan. At first, I thought you want to use RO water to wash clothing... upper class people in Upstate NY do that, you know.

Check the RainBird and drip irrigation section of HomeDepot. There is a hose to RO fitting that will work.

 

[Anonymous]

I picked up a garden hose "Y" with ball valves on each outlet at HD and ordered the hose to 1/4" adapter from MarineDepot as I was already placing an order there for other things.

Funny though, none of the upper class folks I knew when I lived in Upstate NY washed with RO water. Well, at least, not that I knew of I guess.. - Wasn't a topic of discussion and their staff handled washing their clothes anyway. :?

Us poor upper-middle class folk washed our own though and it definitely wasn't with RO! :wink:

 

[Dazz]

I did something similar, just using a brass Y addapter from the garden dept and a bunch of metal reducer pipes. I then put a garden hose timer in line with it so I wont have overflowing of my RO container. The timer is an egg timer style so I just turn it upto 120 min and let it go. Perfect for me IMO.

 

[Anonymous]

Dazz, welcome to RDO.

I like the suggestion of the timer for RO. In fact, that's how I set mine up so that it only turn on once a day to limit the RO membrane creep issue. There is no point in having it turn on and off for half a gallon of RO 50 times a day.

 

[Anonymous]

Check the RainBird and drip irrigation section of HomeDepot. There is a hose to RO fitting that will work.

You are a lovely man, thank you.

 

[Anonymous]

perhaps I missed something here but just in case. I hope you are not taking ro/di water and passing it through a copper (or other metal for that matter) fixture. RO/DI is much more coorsive than tap and will result in high copper levels through even a short length of copper pipe.

So if you are thinking of routing the ro/di I trust it will be a plastic type fitting.

Bob

 

[Fatal Morgana]

It is for the input to the RO/DI, not from the filter to the fish tank.

 

[Anonymous]

I sit corrected. thanks.

Bob

 

[Anonymous]

Ahhh! Turns out here in the moist east coast Home Despot doesn't carry any Rainbird Irrigation stuff. Guess I will go back to fiddling with fittings there till I find one....

 

[Anonymous]

Never mind- I just found it on the Aqua FX page.