Culligan FM-15RA Faucet Filter Replacement Cartridge

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Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The Culligan FM-15RA is a replacement filter cartridge for the Culligan FM-15A faucet-mount filter system. This filter helps reduce unpleasant odor, improves taste, reduces lead and reduces chlorine taste and odor, cryptosporidium and giardia cysts. The filter has a life of up to 200-Gallons.

Product Description

Model No. FM15R replacement taste, odor, and sediment filter cartridge reduces 99% lead, 99.95% cryptosporidium and giardia cyst, chlorine, bad taste and odor, and sediment. Filter life up to 2 months or 200 gallon. Use with model No. FM 15 filter.

Product Details

• Item Weight: 4 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00006WNMJ
• Item model number: FM-15RA
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (43 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #59 in Home Improvement (See Bestsellers in Home Improvement)

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Better than brita, March 11, 2005

By	Wanda Sparkman - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I love the culligan water systems. The base that the cartridge goes into is made better than britas,With brita I was buying a new base with almost every cartridge change and culligan is superior in price ,quality and every other aspect.And I think the water also taste better than water that is filtered using brita.Try it and see for yourself

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars slowest filter around, November 26, 2008

By	E. Hongo (reno, nv) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The Culligan filter is more reliable and lasts longer than the Pur or the GE filters but it is also the slowest filter in terms of water flow.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars FM-15RA inconsistent with FM-15R - please advise!, October 14, 2009

By	Judy Smith - See all my reviews

Hi, perhaps someone can resolve my confusion.

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I just purchased some FM-15RA replacement filters. In the past, I used to get the FM-15R models which were made in USA (not China like these newfangled 15RA ones).

Anyway, in the past, I'd found that some of the FM-15R ones would gush (rather than flow), so I phoned Culligan in mid 2008, and after LOTS of hassle, reached a guy who actually knew something.

He asked me to check whether any of the holes are black rather than white. He said that all the holes need to be white NOT black to filter well.

Sure enough, the ones which gushed had some black holes, so he sent replacements which all had pure white at the holes.

Anyway, now I received the ones made in China, which seem like junk, since they're lighter weight than the USA ones. Note i still have the USA ones, so i could compare.

Also, in the past, the USA ones did not emit what looks like vapor/smoke (probably the charcoal), upon screwing in & trying out for the first time. But the Chinese-made one DOES cause vapor/smoke (charcoal) to emit - which gives me the creeps, because it reminds me of when I erroneously poured Drano down the drain & it emitted similar vapor & hissed toxicly for a long time afterward to the extent that the clog-fixer-guy said it might have caused corrosion of pipes.

But above all:

I'm really baffled now, because these newfangled Chinese made FM-15-RA's <u>all</u> have greyish-black at the holes, rather than white. Yet the one I just now tried is not gushing (despite the blackish holes). Rather, it's flowing.

This is inconsistent with what the Culligan guy had told me regarding the FM-15R. Because going according to him, these newfangled ones ought to be gushing since the holes are not pure white, but rather greyish black??!!

So what am I to believe?