ball valves made 40-more years ago had repair kits available. since the
70s, you throw them away and buy a new one. Sorry. No good news for
you! Kits are long gone too.
Randy Bennell via Mercedes wrote on 10/8/19 10:23 AM:
You all know I live where it gets really cold in the dead of winter.
We have an outside faucet setup on the side of the house. It is a
homemade manifold that permits me to mix hot and cold water outside.
Inside, I have ball valves on each of the hot and cold feeder lines so
that I can turn the outside water off for the winter. I open the
outside valves to drain the water in the lines and all is well until
spring. This has worked fine for 20 years or more.
Now, the ball valves do not appear to be sealing well enough - or at
least one of them is not. The outside hose connection drips. I have
worked the inside valves back and forth a few times in the hope that
it will cause them to seal up but have had no success.
My guess, is that some bit of dirt or loose solder etc has gone
through and scratched the nylon socket insert so that there is an
ability of the water to seep past under pressure.
Anyone have any ideas on repair apart from cutting out the valves and
replacing them? It is getting difficult to find decent quality valves.
They all seem to be made in China now and it is difficult to tell if
they are good or junk.
If I do have to swap them out, I think I will go back to gate valves.
The lever action ball valves are quick to turn on and off but seem to
suffer from some other issues as well. I have installed them all over
the basement so that I can turn almost any fixture or part of the
house on or off without turning the whole house off (which is the way
it started out) and I find that the ball valves tend to sort of seize
up. One needs to work them periodically in order to make sure they can
be turned off if need be.
Randy
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