[Derek] sent in this electric ball valve he built for his bio-diesel reactor. If you haven’t checked, the commercial versions are pretty expensive. His solution was to mate a salvaged saturn ...

[Ben] created a piston valve for this cannon that can be built with parts sourced from your local home supply store. Anyone can build this thing, and everyone should. Instead of using a ball valve ...

If you get drips of water coming through your pipes even with the main shutoff valve completely closed, it’s probably time to replace the shutoff with a new ball valve. It’s not complicated ...

Attempting to represent the flow capacity of an FBBV in terms of control valve standard methods is confounding and can be very misleading, especially when comparing different ball valve units. Based ...

For example, many systems incorporate a pneumatically activated, quarter-turn ball valve to assist in shutting off the steam to the heat exchanger. Users typically select the ball valve because the ...

In this episode, learn about how the Starr-Edwards valve came to be and the inventors behind it. Comprised of a silastic ball enclosed in a metal cage, the Starr-Edwards valve was a revolutionary ...