On 30/05/2018 12:09, Michael Kilpatrick wrote:
Does anyone know of a *decent* manufacturer of water solenoid valves,
preferably a source from which there could be some come-back in the
future, such that I can get an outdoor valve (240V, I don't care what
fittings it is, 3/4 BSP or whatever, as long as I can interface it to a
standard water Hep 25mm pipe by some means or other) which doesn't leak
exactly one year and two weeks after I buy it?

Yes, everything in this world is ****. I can spend £30 on Ebay from a UK
seller on a valve for the timing device for my pond top-up system, and
find that it lasts a year before I see drips coming out of the end of
the pipe...

The offending item was, I believe, a Klod valve, bought from a UK seller
(now vanished from Ebay) but I think made in Thailand?

Michael

In industrial applications, I have used ASCO before. They are not cheap
and I don't know what their standard ones are like - only having had
need of ones rated for flammable atmospheres!

SteveW