Plan Your Installation

SECTION 2

2B. TOOLS, PIPE AND FITTINGS, OTHER MATERIALS NEEDED

You must first decide how to run in and out pipes to the filter. Look at you house main water pipe at the point you will connect the filter. Is the pipe soldered copper, glued plastic, or threaded galvanized or brass? What is the pipe size? What kind of pipe and fittings is it easiest for you to work with, and what tools do you have?

Now look at the common plans for in and out piping on page 9. Select the drawing best for you and use it as a guide to plan what materials you will need. As you plan your in and out piping, keep in mind the following check list. Then get all the materials you will need before you start.

_-" In and out pipes to the filter must be at least 3/4" size. Some local codes may tell you to use no less than 1" pipe size (see note, below).

_-" Use copper, brass, or galvanized pipe and fittings. Some codes may also allow CPVC plastic pipes.

_-" Copper and galvanized pipe corrode quickly when

connected together. Use pipe and fittings of the same material.

_-" You can buy adaptors to go from a copper or threaded main water pipe to CPVC in and out pipe.

_-" Sears has kits and bypass valves you can buy to help make installing your filter easier...see page 9.

ALWAYS install a bypass valve or valves. Either use three shut off valves, or Sears special valve. Bypass valves let you turn off water to the filter, but still have water in the house pipes.

_-" A drain hose is needed to carry away backwash dis- charge water, from the filter, to a drain point (see step 1 on page 14). The filter is factory equipped with a drain fitting that accepts either 5/8" inside diameter (I.D.) hose onto a barb, or a length of 5/8" minimum

I.D. garden hose. You can buy a 15 ft. length of gar- den hose from Sears, Stock No. 42-3431.

NOTE: Flexible hose is not allowed by some codes. If a rigid drain is required, most hardware stores carry adap-

tors, garden hose on one end and sweat or pipe thread on the other.

_-" TOOLS NEEDED: - Common and cross point (Phil-

lips) screw drivers, slip joint pliers and a tape mea- sure or rule.

...for SOLDERED COPPER - tubing cutter, propane torch, solid core LEAD FREE solder, paste flux, emery cloth, sandpaper or steel wool.

...for THREADED PIPE - hacksaw or pipe cutter, pipe wrenches, pipe threading tool, pipe joint com- pound approved for use on potable water.

...for CPVC PLASTIC - hacksaw, adjustable wrench, solvent cement approved for use on potable water, primer.

NOTE, FOR 1" PLUMBING CONNECTIONS

...SOLDERED COPPER - Buy two sweat adaptors (1" female thread x 1" sweat) and plumb directly to the inlet-outlet adaptors or bypass valve. Threads on the inlet-outlet adaptors and bypass valve are 1" pipe thread.

...see

_A_and _B_i. Do not use the installation kit, Sears Stock No.

42-3441, or the flexible conntectors, Sears Stock No. 42-3440.

CAUTION:

DO ALL SOLDERING BEFORE CONNECTING SWEAT ADAPTOR TO INLET-OUTLET ADAPTORS OR BYPASS VALVE.

...THREADED PIPE - Use a 1" threaded straight connector in place of the reducer fitting shown in _C_.

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