With the advent of the market brass
Ball valve manufacturers, 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 ball valves.
Cases and Ball Valves 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 (balls) rigged valves are often not made of brass, and of transformer steel, coated or even without it. Steel
shut off valve quickly corrode and cease to be leak proof.