Alternative appliance hose valve

Yeah, I had to buy a couple of them the other day. The new kitchen tap=20 has those horrid flexi hoses, and they just wouldn't seal onto the=20 isolation valve - too sharp a lip which kept slipping outside the rubber=20 washer on the hose.

I can't stand those hoses - the flow rate through the tiny sort (8mm?)=20 is pathetic. =20

--=20 Skipweasel - never knowingly understood.

I must be missing something here. The only time we ever turn those little washing machine valves is when we buy a new machine, or have a problem. Why do you want to turn the thing more often?

Mike

I bought exactly the same for my parents a couple of years ago (except not Peglar), although my dad actually installed it. Previously (different location), there was a standard brass stop c*ck, but it always started leaking from the shaft after a year or so of frequent operation. The full bore valve has thus far remained leak-free and easy to turn. They can cease up if you don't operate them for a while though.

I don't want to. We had to turn it off each time when going away because the inlet valve on the machine was weeping. The first attempt was when it stabbed my finger. It wasn't worth replacing the valve becacuse for some reason the hot fill valve was ludicrously expensive and the machine was old; on its last legs, it turned out. The lodger had to turn it off for the same reason, then the machine failed completely and when the replacement arrived, the valve handle broke. That was enough.

Obviously, but I've yet to see a decent one; even the £6 ones have plastic handles. A web search turns up one (from who knows what supplier) with a metal handle.

What I have now is a decent valve.

thread, so I would have to use the same arrangement as I have now, just with a -- possibly better, though the RS one is a gate valve, and I've not been impressed with their ability to close off after a few years -- different valve. I'm not advocating the use of a particular valve, just the use of an arrangement with a non-washing-machine valve and a

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember harry saying something like: