Mike Halmarack wrote:
In my fumbling enthusiasm to get out from under the kitchen sink, I
overdid the leverage and broke the spindle of a seized gate valve. So
now it can be turned forever in any direction with no effect.

Will I have to replace the whole thing, or can I remove the guts from
the main body of the valve and renew just those inner parts?

It's probably easiest to replace the whole thing except the nuts
and olives. I've replaced a couple with full-flow lever type valves
which have fitted the same nuts and olives OK. If you replace with
same/similar gate valves then remember to turn back half a turn or so
from fully on or fully off, though I'd recommend lever type valves
instead really.


In my next life I intend to move into my retirement accommodation long
before I become "stiff where once I was supple, and supple where once
I was stiff".

:-)

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Chris Green
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