Theyre all bad to be honest hence why I am lifting out for a few weeks to get them right.Looking at that Heath Robinson set up, have you checked the others?
Maybe put something like below in the pic be safer thanksOMG, we haven't seen anything like that for a while
A nice Tru Design 1.5" valve with a matching 90 Deg bend will do once you have a new backing piece glassed in. you will want to change that hose for the proper white sanitation hose if you going to do the job properly. Oh and two clips on the hose please, screws opposite each other.
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Interesting. That is not my experience of the DZR ball valves from ASAP. I have had at least 15 years service from them without a problem.+1 for Trudesign. We’re in the process of fitting 6 of them to replace the old (DZR) valves.
I made the backing plates out of epoxy/biaxial sheet I laid up and cut them out with holesaw/carbide grit jigsaw blade.
The DZR varieties just don’t inspire confidence. Not all of the parts appear equally corrosion resistant. The ones I removed were in a very sorry state (after approx 13 years, admittedly). A few disintegrated completely during removal. ?
Interesting. That is not my experience of the DZR ball valves from ASAP. I have had at least 15 years service from them without a problem.
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This could be serious - A10 cans to the ready!Theyre all bad to be honest hence why I am lifting out for a few weeks to get them right.
The origin of ours was unknown - fitted in previous ownership (but helpfully labelled with the date). The threaded sections of both the valves and the skin fittings had corroded badly, between the valve and the hull.Interesting. That is not my experience of the DZR ball valves from ASAP. I have had at least 15 years service from them without a problem.
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Were they definitely DZR, marked as such with CR or (more recently) DZR? AFAIK skin fittings and hose tails in DZR have only been available for a few years.The origin of ours was unknown - fitted in previous ownership (but helpfully labelled with the date). The threaded sections of both the valves and the skin fittings had corroded badly, between the valve and the hull.
Used ASAP/Maestrini (or whatever they’re called!) fittings elsewhere and they’ve always seemed decent quality.
Will check next time. Still got 3 to be removed. I actually assumed anything not bronze (or SS, etc.) was DZR, didn’t know it was a new thing. Couldn’t be straight brass, though, surely wouldn’t have survived any time at all? Corroded areas were pink and crumbly (presumed dezincified!).Were they definitely DZR, marked as such with CR or (more recently) DZR? AFAIK skin fittings and hose tails in DZR have only been available for a few years.
That sounds like brass to meWill check next time. Still got 3 to be removed. I actually assumed anything not bronze (or SS, etc.) was DZR, didn’t know it was a new thing. Couldn’t be straight brass, though, surely wouldn’t have survived any time at all? Corroded areas were pink and crumbly (presumed dezincified!).
Every day’s a school day!That sounds like brass to me