I could tell you stories about the Westpak valve, we went through many generations of both the brass and SS valves, back when I made the first Greenhorn, some 3 years ago I put brass on them, then later substituted the SS version cause it should be better right? wrong. I must have warranteed 100 of those valves over the last 2 years casue the Mfg. would give me a song and dance when I would return them (like this industry is famous for), but that won't hold water with our customers, we demand better service and support, so I replaced any problematic SS valve with the brass and gawd knows how many valve rebuild kits I sent out.
As it turns out, the brass valve is a good value and alst a fair amount of time, rebuilds are only $10.
But we are always looking for better, and when I found a version of this Universal machined SS valve, I knew we had something, it jsut needed to be tweaked, finally the career valve, that can sustain a steady diet of high heat, and high pressure.
To answer Mikey, and to site Phil as an example, (since a version of this valve has seen the most action down under) we've Yet to kill one, not a single rebuild kit yet.
So yes, I will send out the rest of the orders this week before making another production run.
