How to Operate Soft Seal Gate Valve

How to Operate Soft Seal Gate Valve?


A lot of people want to know the operation method of soft seal gate valve in order to operate the valve better. Then, what is the operation method of soft seal valve? Here are four main operation methods as follows.

First of all, the opening and closing direction of soft seal gate valve. Many operators often make mistakes here. In fact, people only need to remember that closing soft seal gate valve is for the clockwise direction.

Second, if soft seal gate valve is used in pipeline network, the pneumatic device inside the valve need manual operation. People need to adopt artificial method to open and close it. The times of opening and closing it can not be too much a day so as not to cause damage to soft seal gate valve. If it is a large diameter valve, the times of opening and closing it need to remain between two hundreds times to six hundreds times.

Third, the opening and closing force spacing of sealing gate valves need to maintain in a certain range. This is mainly to save manpower, and convenient to be operated by one person. If the force spacing is over this range, then it is needed at least two to three people to successfully start the valve. 

Fourth, the size of the valve must be standard. It is important to note to face the seal valve gate valve down definitely when putting valves in place.

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