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Posted by bent on March 1, 2007, 2:54 pm
I think you are too late. This piece of garbage has been made into a
monster. I need 3 lawyers, a firefighter, and a priest.
>
>> Back to the point. Can I fix the old valve, and do I need to shut
>> the water off at the street, or at the one & same valve I am fixing,
>> to do it.
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> I'm sure you can fix the valve, but I personally don't know how. You
> will need to remove the pressure from the valve to do so, that would
> mean turning off the water at the street.
>
> If the valve is leaky only in that you can't shut if off 100%, i.e. it
> doesn't leak to the surrounding area, then it may be simpler to just
> abandon it and install a new valve afterwards. Particularly if the
> old valve shuts off sufficiently for you to do the install of the new
> valve.
>
> I haven't really followed all your posts, but I do have one comment:
> if you are working on a vertical riser, then if the old valve allows
> water through at a low enough rate, you should be able to blow the
> water out of the riser and solder a new valve or MIP fitting onto the
> riser before the water level gets high enough to interfere again.
>
> Yours, Wayne
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