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Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 1:28
AM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Heater
valve
Group,
I have been watching this thread for the last day or two and
this is
my .02 cents worth........All of these valves seem to have one thing in
common........Cheaply made and with long term reliability questionable
!!
I am not willing to trust these valves not to fail or leak at a
bad time
for my project.......I plan to use one of the brass or stainless ball
valves
(often used for fuel cutoff also) available at most plumbing or
hardware
stores and McMaster-Carr ,etc.......The lever can be adapted to a
cable
for operation easily.........FWIW
--
Kelly Troyer
Dyke
Delta/13B/RD1C/EC2
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Original message from "Todd Bartrim" <haywire@telus.net>:
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This is the same valve I used (the one that's not working very well
right now :-), except in 5/8" X 5/8". Actually I doubt it's just the valve
at fault. I've been thinking more about this and I'm certain that this
became an issue immediately after I changed to the pink anti-freeze, along
with a few other minor issues. The cable that I use to operate this is also
not of the highest quality. It is from a manual choke conversion kit ($7,
cheap & lightweight).
Todd
When you get a
chance, why don’t you look up the p/n and put it on the Wikki site?
That way, those that haven’t “been there, done that” might have a little
easier journey.
Mark
S.
Yes, there is a huge selection of
push/pull cable operated valves available. I was able to buy a simple,
lightweight valve that fit my system perfectly. Just go to your local
autoparts store and ask to look through their catalogue. You should be
able to find something suitable that they have in
stock.
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