Major pain in the neck: This morning one circuit didn't close, valve stuck on open. It's one of those old brass Rainbird 100E inline 1" valves (early 70's) and they placed some of them under (!) the house. What where they thinking? Takes 1/2h to crawl there, under lots of contortion and head scraping.
Anyhow, I mounted the head of an old 100E valve I had but that leaked at the tube stem (under solenoid). Darn. Took it apart, no space seal. Great. On the web it seems spares are hard to get anyhow so I am thinking of just putting a new plastic 1" valve in. As luck will have it the new valve won't sit straight up when the intake thread tightens to the point of no leak.
How much can inline valves be off from the straight up position? If they have to be pretty much straight up is it ok to use the old hemp and paste method to get a good seal? I found that paste only won't seal until it's all really tight, plus they recommend not to do that.
To be honest I don't want to glue in a new piece of PVC on the intake side because then I'd have to crawl there another time once it's dried. These #%^&!! contractors placed the shut-off for three of the circuits also under the house, right where this dead valve is.
Regards, Joerg.
Anyhow, I mounted the head of an old 100E valve I had but that leaked at the tube stem (under solenoid). Darn. Took it apart, no space seal. Great. On the web it seems spares are hard to get anyhow so I am thinking of just putting a new plastic 1" valve in. As luck will have it the new valve won't sit straight up when the intake thread tightens to the point of no leak.
How much can inline valves be off from the straight up position? If they have to be pretty much straight up is it ok to use the old hemp and paste method to get a good seal? I found that paste only won't seal until it's all really tight, plus they recommend not to do that.
To be honest I don't want to glue in a new piece of PVC on the intake side because then I'd have to crawl there another time once it's dried. These #%^&!! contractors placed the shut-off for three of the circuits also under the house, right where this dead valve is.
Regards, Joerg.