Next message: Dave Benjamin: "RE: lv-ab: Ho Hum Huricane"
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> I don't understand what you mean by "the head sheared off". Do
> you mean the
> square boss on the handle end of the tapered cock plug, the place
> the handle
> fits onto? It is hard to imagine this shearing off a Wilcox
> seacock as it is
> a hunk of solid bronze. I imagine the handle would fail first.
> Perhaps you
> did not have the Wilcox seacocks that I am using.
The head which the socket normally loosens on the opposite side of the
handle is what sheared off - and mine also is solid bronze. (I never used
spanners (wrenches for some of you) on my valves) so they would not get
rounded off.
I don't have Wilcox, they were Taiwanese (past tense). Doesn't it concern
you though that they can take awhile!!! to close by the time you go through
all the gyrations to close a valve. I considered that a safety issue and
hence replaced many of them. I prefer the marallon for small valves and
bronze ball valves for large ones: for the safety reason of being able to
quickly close if necessary and they are situated where they are not stepped
on.
I guess everything is a trade-off of some sort.
Sandra
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