What are you using on your bean overflow... Ball valve or Gate Valve?

[David R]

Cheers, will have to get some to loosen up the ball valve I bought for my new set up!

 

[redtailcatfish88]

Simple Vaseline, I have used it for the o-rings on my Fluval externals for more than 2 years without any issues or a single leaky cannister which Fluvals used to be notorious for. If you check Fluvals website they suggest its use. It has been on my sump ball vales for well over a year now. You really only need the smallest amount, not enough to gunk up just enough so the ball sides easily.

I just did this on my ball valve on my pump and I must say it made a huge difference. Theirs almost no resistance now

 

[Aquaticfan]

Interesting and cool solution on the ball valve issue. BUT I think the biggest advantage the gate has over the ball valve is a better internal valve that has a finer adjustment by design.. Correct?

 

[Rayne]

^ correct

gate valves are designed for fine adjustments
ball valves are designed for quick on/off

 

[Aquaticfan]

^ correct

gate valves are designed for fine adjustments
ball valves are designed for quick on/off

Same thing I thought.............

PS..... Your Avatar is creeper..... Not that it bothers me or I mind. Just thought you should know. lol

 

[bozatron]

Gate valves are much better than ball valves, for that exact reason ^^ they are designed to adjust flow where as ball valves are more of an on/off. Trouble is in most places gate valves are much more expensive and in my case simply not available at all. So I had to go for ball valves, given the option I would choose PVC gate valves as my first choice.

 

[bassguy]

I use ball valves and wished I used gates for the fine adj..

 

[the_deeb]

For those of you using gate valves, are you using them on all three drains or only on the full siphon drain? It seems to me that only the full siphon drain would need a gate valve for fine adjustments and others would be fine with just a ball valve and union for disassembly and maintenance.