All The Different Little Refrigerant Fittings: What Kind Do You Need?
Refrigerant fitting suppliers will have several questions for you when you call to ask for a replacement refrigerant fitting. Do you know what kind you need? Do you know where it is installed? Can you describe the fitting you need or find a parts number on the existing part somewhere? To give you a head start on answering all of these questions correctly, the following information is provided.
Kinds of Fittings
Refrigerant fitting by kind means that you have to know what appliance or machine you are pulling the part from. Did you take the part from an air conditioner, a refrigerator, a freezer, or your car's air conditioning system? For each of these four kinds of fittings, there are additional questions to be answered. If you took the fitting from a refrigerator, for example, was a commercial refrigerator, or was it a household refrigerator? If you took the fitting from a household refrigerator, what is the make and model of the refrigerator? As you answer each new question about the appliance or machine from which you took the refrigeration fitting, a new question will pop up that will help the supply company determine the exact part you need to purchase.
Describing the Fitting
It is also important to find the correct kind of fitting since some machines and appliances from the same companies made in the same years had different refrigeration components. It is weird, but it does happen. Ergo, the supply company's sales associate will want to know what you see when you look at the fitting. Is it L-shaped? Does it have any extruding parts onto which hoses and pipes attach? Does it have any valves? Is it one solid piece in its shape, or is it separated by another odd-looking component? Answering all of these questions with a full and complete description of what you see with the fitting helps the associate scroll through the company's inventory to find the exact and correct part.
Additionally, if there are any numbers or markings on the fitting, tell that to the associate when you are describing the part. The numbers and/or markings actually help the sales associate look up the part a lot faster, with zero guesswork as to what part is needed. Be sure to look inside any wide openings of the fitting you have to see if you can see numbers and letters since these markings are sometimes found inside the parts.
Contact a refrigerant fitting supplier like Smart Lock Fitting for more information.