Champion Quick-Lock Union Tee - Equal, Swivel and Reduction Outlet Tee (14mm to 63mm)

A tee is where a Champion Quick-Lock main turns into a branch, and the type of tee you pick decides whether that branch delivers dry air or a cup of water. This listing carries all three Quick-Lock tee families.

• Equal tee, 14mm through 63mm, all three legs the same tube size. Champion prints the 14mm as a Union Tee and 20mm and up as a Junction Tee; they are the same fitting family.
• Swivel tee, 14mm tube with a male NPT branch that rotates so you can orient it after the thread is tight.
• Reduction outlet tee with water trap insert, the one that matters most. The run stays full size, the branch drops to 20mm, 25mm or 32mm, and an internal insert routes air to the point of use while moisture keeps travelling along the main toward the low point.

Choose the tee you need from the dropdown above.

The Reduction Outlet Tee, and Why It Replaces a Swan Neck

The traditional way to take a drop without dumping condensate into it is a swan neck: a riser off the top of the main, over, and back down. It works, it costs three fittings and a length of tube, and it eats headroom.

Champion's outlet tee does the same job inside one fitting. In Champion's own words it is "a valid alternative to the traditional swan neck" and to a goose neck take-off: the internal system lets air reach the point of use while condensate drains toward the most convenient low point of the system, so moisture does not sit in the main circuit and does not drop into the branch.

Two things still apply. Pitch the whole system with a slight slope so moisture collects at one point, and terminate that point with a drop leg and a condensate drain. The outlet tee manages where water goes; it does not remove it. For that you want a properly sized air dryer.

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Shared Technical Specifications

Installation and Torque

Take drops off the top of the main, not the bottom, unless you are using an outlet tee designed to manage it. Water in a main runs along the bottom, so a branch taken off the bottom is a funnel. The outlet tee is designed to take air to a point of use while condensate continues along the main, which is a drop orientation; for a riser off a main, an equal tee or an elbow is the normal choice. You can reduce a branch with an equal tee plus a reducing stem adapter, but that costs two parts and does not give you the water trap insert, so buy the outlet tee if the branch is a drop. Any tee comes apart later: loosen the compression nut one to one and a half turns, push the pipe in, pull it out, and inspect the o-ring before reassembly.

Ideal Applications

Branching a loop main into bay drops, feeding a bank of outlets off a header, splitting a run to serve two machines, and, with the outlet tee, every drop in a shop where a tool must not see liquid water. The swivel tee is the point of use fitting on 14mm bench and station runs.

Building a Complete Quick-Lock System

• Quick-Lock aluminum tubing, 14mm to 63mm
• Straight union connectors
• 90 and 45 degree elbows and street elbows
• Male and female NPT threaded connectors
• Saddle clamp outlets for adding a drop to an existing run
• Stem and reducing adapters

Ordering Notes

• All Quick-Lock products and accessories are NO CANCEL / NO RETURN, per Champion's current price list.
• Freight: freight collect from Huntersville, NC 28078 or Las Vegas, NV 89113.
• Shipping weights: Champion publishes no per-fitting weight for this range, so no catalog weight is carried on these variants.