As part of that, I'm replacing the old gate valves at each fixture with quarter-turn valves, otherwise known as ball valves. Putting a ball valve at each fixture is a simple DIY job, and makes ...

Ball valves are quarter-turn, straight-through valves that have a round closure element with matching rounded seats that permit uniform sealing stress. The valve gets its name from the ball that ...

[Derek] sent in this electric ball valve he built for his bio-diesel reactor. If you haven’t checked, the commercial versions are pretty expensive. His solution was to mate a salvaged saturn ...

Turn standard stop valves several times clockwise to close. A ball-type valve requires only one-quarter turn. A shut off ball valve has a hole in the ball, which completely opens or closes with ...

These four performance parameters cannot be sacrificed. Each selected valve should provide leak-tight performance at ...

Attempting to represent the flow capacity of an FBBV in terms of control valve standard methods is confounding and can be very misleading, especially when comparing different ball valve units. Based ...

The most commonly used steam valves are listed here. Ball valves provide tight shut-off and predictable control. They have a high range of use due to the design of the regulating element, without the ...