Cases and Trunnion Ball Valve in the products of leading manufacturers are made by hot pressing or hot forging. Manufacturers producing fake not spent on buying such technology and its products are manufactured by casting. These products are characterized by an uneven surface of the body, rolls, may have a mixed structure of the material - with aerial shells and, consequently, low reliability. Ball valves rigged valves are often not made of brass, and of transformer steel, coated or even without it. Steel balls quickly corrode and cease to be leak proof. Failure to invest in the copper alloy brass faucet body makes it suspiciously easy. Steel ball compensates for this lack of weight, masking the presence of thin-wall housing is unacceptable.
It is useful to say how counterfeit valves masquerading as the original. One of the techniques - misspelling the names of famous companies, such as, Bogati instead of Matca-Norca. Formally, this is not fake, because the original brand is not used. There are cases of writing only the names of countries, for example, USA, instead of adopting a made in Italy. The distortion of the famous logo, placing it, for example, not a diamond, but a square or a circle, also serves to confuse the buyer. Evidence of fraud may be the absence of any of the markings required for specific manufacturers. The sale of gas valves, and found such a primitive form of deception, as replacement faucet handles on native yellow - gas (gas valves are more expensive). Price savings may be too high, so choose the ball valves are safer from the range of recognized brands.
With the advent of the market brass ball valves, they immediately appreciated was evaluated, and the demand for these products increases, as well as their scope. Now such products can be found in any economic stall. However, despite their apparent similarity, not all ball valves are really reliable and durable. Along with high-quality Italian taps, more and more pushed over in the trade cheap Polish, Chinese and Turkish valves, whose quality is far from perfect? In the struggle for the vast US market, some sellers have begun to distribute cheap "consumer goods" for branded products, quite simply to sell a fake, so I'd like to give some practical advice to buyers' brass Control Ball Valve. As a rule, forgery in performance is much inferior to the original products.