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Installing an Ice Maker Video

Bob gets some tips about how to hook up an automatic ice maker from plumber Ed Mann. Ed demonstrates how to connect the ice maker with the water supply in the house. One-quarter-inch soft copper tubing is used and an extra five feet of slack is left on the line in order to move the refrigerator in and out without removing the line. Ed likes to use a copper tee and compression valve instead of the saddle valve because the earlier method will result in many years of service whereas saddles have a tendency to leak. A compression fitting is used to make up the copper tubing to the solenoid valve on the refrigerator.

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