John wrote:
The Daring Dufas wrote:
John wrote:
Smitty Two wrote:
In article , John wrote:

Smitty Two wrote:

The thinnest ring, washer, or whatever you call it, at each
junction, actually moves just a tiny bit against a spring. That
disengages the hose and it slides off virtually effortlessly.
That's what I thought. I took a photograph of the unit before I
started to disassemble the unit so that I would know what went where.
Then I took off those rings and tugged on the hose.
This is what I got for my heroic efforts:

http://i26.tinypic.com/ezg4th.jpg

Now I don't have any drinkable water in the house and I ran out of
bottled water. The tap water is truly awful.
Am I in hot water now?

Not if you live in the United States of America. You can just hop in
the car, drive to the store, and buy more bottled water.
It isn't clear to me whether you now, after breaking one, understand
how those junctions come apart? IOW, the red ring may be a locking
ring, but you still have to slide, not remove, the other ring in
order to disengage the thing. Replacement parts are readily available.

If this is an IQ test, then I've flunked it.

I just don't get it. The red ring is exerting so little pressure
that I can't see how sliding or removing the ring is going to have
any effect at all. I've tried just about everything (obviously not
the right thing) to no avail. I've tugged, pushed, pulled and squeezed.

I feel so dumb.

The red ring was just a safety, You have to close the gap that
the ring was in and at the same time pull on the tube. It takes
a little coordination to accomplish the task but it's not that
difficult.

TDD

Yep. With that explanation I was able to separate out the hoses.

The hoses leading into the reservoir was very, very tight. There doesn't
appear to be any problem with the reservoir so once I get a replacement
reservoir (that I broke), I'll have to find the real cause of the leak.

I noticed that the hole of the gray elbow leading into the reservoir was
slightly different than the hole leading into the hose. I took a close
up photograph since I'll never be able to remember which goes where later.

Of course, now that I've disassembled the hoses, the whole process seems
so simple and obvious. Silly me.

Case closed. Thank you.

Think of it as a Chinese finger puzzle. If you've never seen
one before, it could make you crazy. *snicker*

TDD