Sticky ball valves

Any one else have sticky or hard to turn valves?

I’ve only had my rig for 5 months but my valves are getting way to hard to operate. Can you grease them or rebuild them?

I always lube them with silicone spray each time I lube all my other fittings, which ends up being about once a week…(though it SHOULD be daily, in my opinion) I find that it works really well for the plastic 3-way valves too, if you happen to have any of those in use.

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the valves that I’m having trouble with right before my hose reel. so I’m not sure how to lube them without unscrewing he hose each time.

Oh…I guess you could put a quick-connect inline there so you could take the hose off and lune the valve that way, but otherwise it would be a bit of a pain. Still, those valves aren’t cheap, so even the hassle of unscrewing the hose to lube the valve now and then would probably be worth it.

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