Culligan Ic - 100 inline water filter

Welcome to Water Wisdom sponsored by WaterFilters.NET. Here we have an IC 100 from Culligan. This is a standard bearer product. This thing has been around forever and it is a very common inline filter. In the last few years it has undergone a minor product change that has thrown some folks off and we want to talk about that today. But if you formerly had an IC 100 filter this will continue to work in 99% of situations, even if you’re not really familiar with the new fitting arrangement that you’ll see here in a moment. So let’s take a closer look at it. Here we have the IC 100. Now these grey things on the end are just protective covers, we’re going to remove those, set them aside, we don’t need them. Here we have the Culligan IC 100 it used to have female pipe threads on the end and you probably had some form of compression fitting like this which would have your water line and the compression fitting and the male pipe threads would screw in to the female pipe threads on your old IC 100. Now we’ve gone to the new technology and this filter system has quick connect fittings. Here you have a quick connect fitting it’s nothing more than a whole with a collar around it because it’s integrated in there. The fitting is inside, you can see it but it doesn’t matter it does its job. You’re going to take a naked of water line that if it’s not properly cut won’t work, so we’re going use a tubing cutter here and show you that quickly. Take your tubing put it in your tubing cutter and cut a nice clean end. The end has to be perfectly circular. It can’t be smashed and out of round, and it has to be clean on the end and perfectly square cut. That’s what this is. Now I’m going to take this naked water line with nothing on it and stab it into the end. That’s it, there it is ¼” outside diameter that’s the width of the water line stabbed directly into these quick connect fittings. No special fittings required. Now if you have a situation where you have a piece of plumbing that has a female thread, they have supplied these special little fitting right here, that stab into the quick connects. You have this stem here, this is called a male stem adapter. Here you have a male stem. It stabs into the quick connect, as it is here on this end, and then your female nut will attach to this male thread here. And that’s fairly common and there are instructions on the box about using that, but it’s really quite simple. In either case you can use this if you had the IC-100 before even if you formerly had these old school pipe thread fittings.