I have had the same experience.
I had a three-way plastic ball valve in the seawater input circuit of my RO watermaker to choose between flotation water and fresh water rinse. It failed early on and was expensive to replace so I now use separate valves. While plastic is good for seawater, I have had good luck with Apollo bronze ball valves for non-saltwater fluids. We have an Apollo ball valve on the discharge spud of the Wilcox Skipper head, which we flush with fresh water. I cut a short (not close) 1 1/4" nipple and welded one half on the bronze spud the discharge hose connects to and then screwed an Apollo 1 1/4" ball valve there connecting the hose to the second half of the nipple screwed into the ball valve. We shut off that valve when not using the head and thus never have a problem with check valve leakage. I do wish that West would offer them in all bronze with ss handle and nut which is available on request from Apollo. On the standard valves the valve stem and packing nut are brass while the handle and nut is plated steel. Norm S/V Bandersnatch Lying Julington Creek 30 07.695N 081 38.484W > I don't like Y valves, they always seem to leak a bit. I use separate > ball valves. -Ken _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list Liveaboard@liveaboardnow.org To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to liveaboard-j...@liveaboardnow.org To unsubscribe send an email to liveaboard-le...@liveaboardnow.org The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/liveaboard@liveaboardnow.org The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
