Check Valve Ball
- dwilloughby
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Check Valve Ball
Anyone know what size ball was used in the Coles' 1/8" horizontal check valve?
- Greg_Lewis
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Re: Check Valve Ball
I don't know the size but I have some data that might help you figure it out. PM me your email and I'll scan the pages and send them to you.
Greg Lewis, Prop.
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- Bill Shields
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Re: Check Valve Ball
It would be 1.4 x the diameter of the hole in the seat.
Too many things going on to bother listing them.
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Re: Check Valve Ball
if you are talking about the really small check valve, the ball measures .094". ninety-four thousands of an inch. that ball is so small, if you were to drop it, it would burn up in the atmosphere and you would never find it.
- dwilloughby
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Re: Check Valve Ball
I received a replay to an e-mail from Loco Parts. The size of the ball is 3/32 of an inch. And yes it disappeared in the blink of an eye never to be found again on the garage floor.
- Bill Shields
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Great line about the ball burning up in the atmosphere! Never considered that, but you may just be on to something Blff CTY!
- Greg_Lewis
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Re: Check Valve Ball
Many physics phenomena have been proven in the shop. The existence of black holes was known long ago. They exist under the workbench, which is where many dropped items go. The rate of acceleration, (distance=1/2 x acceleration x time squared) is also proven in the workshop. You do this by dropping that new, unused, $25 end mill onto the floor, chipping off the corner of one of the teeth.
Greg Lewis, Prop.
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Eyeball Engineering — Home of the dull toolbit.
Our motto: "That looks about right."
Celebrating 35 years of turning perfectly good metal into bits of useless scrap.
- Bill Shields
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Re: Check Valve Ball
Where do you find a $25 end mill?
Too many things going on to bother listing them.
Re: Check Valve Ball
That's just another Shop Physics proof about the fluidity of time...
It's related to why any project we work on takes at least twice as long as we expected.
RussN
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it is called Cheops' law of construction
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- Greg_Lewis
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Re: Check Valve Ball
Under the workbench, next to the blood stopping spray.
Greg Lewis, Prop.
Eyeball Engineering — Home of the dull toolbit.
Our motto: "That looks about right."
Celebrating 35 years of turning perfectly good metal into bits of useless scrap.
Eyeball Engineering — Home of the dull toolbit.
Our motto: "That looks about right."
Celebrating 35 years of turning perfectly good metal into bits of useless scrap.