Howdy,
Sorry, probably I meant item # 5867T11.
But that looks to be the same valve I've got on my portable air tanks that
all leak.
I wonder if a 1/2" female / male ball valve like item # 47865K43 or
4082T44 inline between the tank and your existing valve like the above
might solve the leak down problem at the expense of sticking the
contraption up in the air a little bit more?
Mark
On Mon, 23 Jan 2012, Mark Andy wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> On Sun, 22 Jan 2012, Scott wrote:
>> I have the H-F 11-gallon steel air tank. It always bled down in about a
>> day, which I attributed to the little plastic twist on/off valve/fitting.
>>
>> So...$35 of brass from Lowes later, I have replicated the original brass
>> fitting, and added a 1/2" gas shut off valve.
>>
>> I bought:
>>
>> 1/2" male to 1/2" male adapter (tank 'in')
>> 1/2" x 1/2" x 1/2" female t-fitting
>> 1/2" male to 1/8" female bushing (for the pressure gauge output)
>> 1/2" male to 1/2" male adapter (another one) to connect the t-fitting to
>> the shut-off valve
>> 1/2" female to 1/2" female gas shut-off valve
>> 1/2" male to 1/4" female bushing (the hose 'out')
>>
>> That's a lot of work to replicate the original H-F part. I was thinking
>> I'd just return those parts and buy a new...what? I am admittedly not a
>> great Boolean searcher, but I can't find anything like this on McMaster or
>> anywhere else. Surely this is just because I suck at the internet, right?
>
> I knew for sure that McMaster had it because I'd seen it before and even then
> it took me 15 minutes searching their site to get the magic combination of
> words.
>
> I think what you want is on catalog page 485, item #5867T21
>
> I've never seen one of these with a ball valve to replace the screw valve,
> which is what always seems to leak. If you find one, I'd like to know about
> it. :-)
>
> Mark
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