OATEY 39176 IMOB Valve, 1/4 Turn, Copper, Low Lead

The Oatey 39176 is an ice maker outlet box (IMOB) with a 1/4 turn copper valve and low lead construction. The box itself is high impact polystyrene, and it ships with two support brackets for mounting between studs. It's the recessed box you rough into the wall behind a refrigerator so the icemaker supply line terminates in a serviceable shutoff instead of a bare stub.

No. The 39176 is the plain version. Oatey offers the arrestor as a separate option in this box line, which adds the shock arrestor required on supply lines feeding quick closing valves. Refrigerator icemaker solenoids are quick closing, so if your local code or the job spec calls for arrestment, order the arrestor version rather than this one.

The valve is copper, low lead, and quarter turn. That's the low lead construction required for potable water lines in most jurisdictions, and it's what you want on a drinking water branch feeding an icemaker.

A quarter turn ball style stop, which is what the 39176 carries, goes fully open to fully closed in a 90 degree swing, so a tech or a tenant can kill the water to the fridge fast without hunting for the seat. Multi-turn compression stops tend to seize or weep after years of sitting untouched behind an appliance, which is exactly the duty cycle an icemaker box sees.

Two support brackets come in the box, so it mounts between framing members at rough-in stage before the drywall goes on. The polystyrene body is a recessed box, meaning the face sits flush with finished wall and the valve stays inside the wall cavity where the refrigerator can back up to it.

Order Oatey 39176. That manufacturer part number gets you the ice maker outlet box with the quarter turn copper low lead valve, polystyrene housing, and the pair of support brackets. UPC 038753391762.

Each 39176 box weighs 1.1 lb with a volume of 0.009. Light enough that a property manager or plumbing contractor stocking a whole apartment build can carry a stack of them on the truck without a pallet.