Tight seacocks

[oldbilbo]

How tight are yours to operate?

I bought 2 new 1 1/2" Italian ballvalve items from Force 4, then found I could operate one of them only with great difficulty - and the other one not at all.

Back in the store, the 'difficult' one was clamped in a bench vice, and the store chap used both hands, arms and body weight. Couldn't shift it.... until he extended the leverage with a section of pipe. Three more 'straight out of the packet' were exactly the same.

Surely this is not as it should be....?

 

[superheat6k]

Force Four have been very good to me with duff products - I assume they refunded you. The DZR ones I have bought from them have all been fine.

 

[cryan]

No. You need to be able to shut them easily in an emergency. Ball v/v's should be quite free to move. sometimes new ones can be a bit stiff but not so stiff you need an extension bar to move the handle.

 

[prv]

The ones I had from ASAP at the end of last year still move with fingertip pressure, even the 1-1/2" toilet outlet one.

Pete