Re: [SilverStreak] Watts or Sharkbite for PEX

["Bev Harris" <zia@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe,

Thanks for the offer, but I personally don't need the picture.  I'm almost sure what you got is 
called Flair or Flair-It.  My local Ace has those as well. 

Others may be interested to know that when I was in my local Lowes yesterday to pick up 
some Watts Quick Connect stuff, they had something called Gator Bite -- which I'm guessing 
is a clone of Shark Bite.  It seemed to be plastic inside and brass looking outside.

Bev

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> Bev, 
>   I finally made it back to the Ace Hardware store to look at the fittings and see if the 
white nylongs ones I bought last year were Watts. I looked and all the white ones were Watts 
but they didn't look like the fittings I had bought. What I had purchased before had a nut you 
put on the PEX, then you pushed part of the fitting into the ID of the PEX, then you tightened 
down the nut. Now all the Watts fittings are like the Sharkbite, they have a plastic collar that 
you push the PEX into as it goes into the fitting. If you would like, I can take a picture of 
the fitting I have and put it on the forum on the other part of Tom's site. 
>   Joe
>