Fresh water float valve options

[Mikey P]

I'm on my third Hudson valve on the Vortex..

http://hudsonvalve.com/

$38 each over ten years is nothing to cry about but would like something that can take the heat better.

A swing arm type valve wont live long as there are no walls or supports to keep it from bouncing all over the place.


1 inch pipe inlet from the side...

 

[Lee Stockwell]

I mounted that valve outside the tank.

 

[Askal]

We gave up on the floats. Just fill it. 150 gallon tank.

 

[Mikey P]

I mounted that valve outside the tank.

To warn the lion and the lamb?

 

[Mike Draper]

maybe an overfow shutoff like what they use in the waste tank would work.

 

[Desk Jockey]

To warn the lion and the lamb?

Whutt chew tawkin bout Willis?

 

[Lee Stockwell]

Inside a section of 4" pvc.

 

[GeneMiller]

I have a holder for my float. It prevents it from bouncing up and down. It holds it just below the full mark.
Has worked so far. I also took the plastic arm that was breaking and made a new one out of aluminum. The holes that the stainless cotter pin runs through are getting bigger and it will eventually fail but it has already lasted 4 times longer. I have a Hudson but never bothered to run the extra plumbing to make it work. It did fail today but I haven't looked. The float might have just come off.


Gene

 

[Mark Saiger]

We have had excellent luck with the one Butler uses actually....

I should take a pic for and send you....

see if it would work for you....

 

[GeneMiller]

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We have had excellent luck with the one Butler uses actually....

I should take a pic for and send you....

see if it would work for you....

Post a picture of it, or better yet make a video. Lol

Gene

 

[Mark Saiger]

Post a picture of it, or better yet make a video. Lol

Gene

 

[Mike Draper]

Butlers is electronic if I can remember correctly.

 

[bob vawter]

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We have had excellent luck with the one Butler uses actually....

I should take a pic for and send you....

see if it would work for you....

you know how?????

 

[GeneMiller]

Can't believe that the float broke after just talking about it. The little ear broke off. Time to plumb in the Hudson

Gene