Getting rid of the ball valve!

Racer · February 16, 2019, 2:03am

Test both at 2500 psi using a bucket and tell us the flow differential in 30 seconds in gpm.

Innocentbystander · February 16, 2019, 4:49pm

Don’t change anything. Hose should have male end leading.

anon26752184 · February 16, 2019, 10:51pm

Oh? Currently I have one female QC on the ball valve, male on everything else. Saves replacing orings on two guns and two SC’s?

All the guns over here I’ve seen have a male QC sent with them, and my 20” SC has a male QC from the factory - but I should swap all these out for females?

Innocentbystander · February 16, 2019, 11:46pm

I plumb my guns to be effecient, cost effective and easy to use. It is cheaper to put in be female quick connect on the discharge side and cheap make plugs on all the accessories. Friction loss, and every garden hose and fire hose in the known world lead with the male end because it flows more water and is not as unlickly to unhook itself.

anon26752184 · February 17, 2019, 12:10am

Ahhh I give up with it. I’ll buy a new, light ball valve.

Cheers!

@Racer

Can you link me to your “sexy” ball valve please?

This beast I have is heavy! I also replaced the handle with a much longer one asnits hard to open and close…

Innocentbystander · February 17, 2019, 12:21am

Don’t give up. The pic of the gun you posted is perfect. Nirvana. Don’t change it

anon26752184 · February 17, 2019, 12:26am

I can’t figure a way to connect to my SC though. It’s has a 3/8 inlet, and a 3/8 male coming out. So it won’t fit the gun…

That’s why I was going to female the end of the hose, and male the inlet side of the gun. It would then connect to both.

BUT I’d have to walk back, shut off the machine, walk to the SC - connect the SC, walk back and start the machine - and the same to switch back!

So that’s a non-starter.

Innocentbystander · February 17, 2019, 12:30am

A 50cl cent bushing will solve the 3/8 to 1/4 problem. An hour of tinkering on the surface cleaner will solve that problem. I would honestly quit this business if I had to use a ball valve.

Harold · February 17, 2019, 12:39am

What business would you go into to?

anon26752184 · February 17, 2019, 12:40am

Especially if you had mine…!

I’ll tinker.

Innocentbystander · February 17, 2019, 12:47am

I’ve promised myself and my wife I’m going to barber school when I turn fifty and open up a barber shop. That’s only a year away and it really seems scary to think about now

Harold · February 17, 2019, 2:10am

That would be sweet retirement gig. Something to wake up to and socialize and make a few bucks while your at it

anon26752184 · February 17, 2019, 3:16am

I had a tinker, I think I will do it your way, seems all my fittings are reversed to yours! When you click a lance into the female gun QC, there is a wobble up and down, does this go away under pressure?

I’ll need to wait until tomorrow to get a female thread male QC to go on the swivel at the hose. I don’t have those laying around.

Someone mentioned it previously, but there’s a big difference if I reduce to 1/4 from 3/8 at the SC. I took a pic of the brass fittings I have - it might just be those type?