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Hi there
Wonder if there is anyone out there that can help out. Having a nightmare with my pressure pot from Glastar.

I recently had problems with my pressure pot with grit coming out initially and then just air. After reading a million different theories and testing them all with mixing valve off/on increments, checking the hose, checking the nozzle, etc etc ad nauseum, I discovered a small hole in the plastic tubing leading to the footswitch.
I cut the tubing thinking that I could just pull out the part with the hole and then re-insert the tube. Not so.
After trying to get the nut off, not having the right spanner size etc, etc, I called Glastar and spoke to one guy there.

He clearly thought I was very stupid as he explained I needed to press the lip and as I didn't understand where the "lip" was that he was talking about I sent a pic the same as the one I have attached here. I could not find any mention of a "lip" in the manual either. I eventually got a photocopy of my pic from Glastar with arrows pointing at the lip and a note saying that it needed to be pressed in.

Is there a method of push and pull simultaneously that I should be doing? All I am achieving is chewing up the remainder of the tubing that is stuck in there, thing up the lip in order to keep it "out" and getting nowhere apart from very frustrated and feeling dumb that I should be able to fix this. I am guessing I've made this a bigger problem by not having enough tubing in there to just give a good pull….

Any help/guidance would be much appreciated….

Haley

It should be a compression fitting. Loosen the nut and take off the fitting, pull out the cut-off tubing, make a clean cut in the end of the tubing from the switch and push it in the comp. sleeve all the way, then tighten on to the regulator.

Hi Marty
Thanks for the fast response.
Everything I had read about compression fittings led me to believe to loosen the nut…which is what I was trying to do!
Glastar said there was no need to do that just press in the lip… sooo back to where I was which was more logical to me… now to see if I can loosen it...
thanks for the info.

Heh, I'm familiar with these. It's not a compression fitting, so put the wrenches away.

That round center part that the hose slips into needs to be pressed inward. With the "button" pressed in (and held in) you can pull the remains of the tubing out.
Once the old tube is out, just push the new tube into the hole and then pull it and the round brass part back outward abut 1/16" and it will lock the new tubing in place.

Hi suds,
Just read your post but I found out that indeed it's not a compression fitting! After almost two days of trying to wrench it out and then my neighbour almost putting his back out.. we deduced the nut was not supposed to come out!
We eventually diid exactly as you described… job done!
Thanks very much.. I should have been on here a couple of days ago sage in the knowledge that folk know their stuff on this board!

oops.
shows how long it's been since I set mine up...

Funny!
In your defence Marty it does state on the front of the manual "pushing the ends approximately 1/4" into the Compression Fitting"!
Hence the confusion…

Technically, these aren't compression fittings. They're called "push-to-connect" fittings and have an o-ring and some sort of retaining feature that holds the tubing aggressively in-place.

Let us know if you continue to have problems with the pressure pot.

Tony