In reply to johnwright:
Thanks Jim/ John
I appreciate that all soldered would be a better solution, but the tubing in to the fridge doesn’t appear to be copper ( as it’s silver) so there will have to be a compression fitting involved somewhere.
I’ve ordered some 1/4 “ olives so first choice will be to see if using the 6mm to 8mm compression fitting I have will do the job with the existing pipework
If not then I’ll hunt around to see if I can find either a 1/4” to 8mm soldered fitting or the 1/4” to 8mm that I had in mind originally ( although that looks a long shot)
Failing both of those then replacing all the pipework with 8mm it will have to be.
Incidentally, having a flexible hose connection to the fridge would make life much easier ( as the fridge fits in a fixed cupboard unit) but the Dometic instructions specifically advise against that. There is already flexible hose from the regulator to the fixed pipework ( can’t see any way around that) and again from pipework to cooker. Is it strictly not done to use similar in fridge installation, or Dometic covering themselves?.
Advice much appreciated - and I’ll post something climbing related next time!!