[7] How to use TECOFI ball valves
- Maintain the valve or drive it in rotation only on the screwed side: by the 6 sides end with a plane wrench or an adjustable wrench.
- Avoid using grips or hook spanners which can damage the external coating.
- Never grip the valve bodies in a vice.
- Tighten moderately, when screwing, valves and fittings.
- Not to block with extensions of key (breaking of the butts or permanent buckling of the body).
- In a general manner, and for all the small valves and fittings equipping the building, not to exceed the tightening torque of 30 Nm.
- In the beginning of mounting period, the valve should not support the piping efforts.
- Except in the event of peremptory necessity, not to dismount the elements of the new valves. Each apparatus underwent the hydraulic or pneumatic tests of reception which guarantee a correct assembly of the elements and the whole tightness.
- Connection of a ball being generally ensured by a threading «BSP», tight in the threads (threading of the conical tube, threading of the split coupling), these threads must answer the criteria of Standard NFE03-004, itself conforms to ISO/R7. Nevertheless, the tapped lengths of the sleeves being often smaller than theoretical lengths ISO/R7, which the standard NFE03-004 permits, it is essential: . limit the threaded length of the tube, . use a product (PTFE ribbon or similar) ensuring connection tightness, . check that the tube extremity does not butt against the shoulder of the seat (obligatory clearance: 1mm minimum).
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