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Contents:
  Valves, Starsan ("A.J deLange")
  RE: Source for valves and other fittings ("Mike Sharp")


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Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:22:13 -0400
From: "A.J deLange" <ajdel at cox.net>
Subject: Valves, Starsan

An excellent source for many brewery needs, including valves of all 
sorts (sanitary 3A, check valves etc.) and other fittings is McMaster 
Carr. Their web site (www. mcmaster.com) makes it relatively easy to 
find even the most obscure piece, they sell to anybody and because I (in 
Virginia) live relatively close to them (N.J.) anything I order today 
arrives tomorrow without having to pay for overnight delivery.

If you wish to pay more (sometimes lots more) for the same functionality 
there is always Cole Parmer.


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I'm sure that careful investigation would reveal that Starsan, like so 
many things in this world,  "...is known to the state of California to 
produce birth defects..." by which I believe they mean rational thinking.



A.J.


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Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:01:09 -0700
From: "Mike Sharp" <rdcpro at hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: Source for valves and other fittings

Paul is looking for a Source for valves and other fittings...

I've bought a lot of that sort of stuff from one particular seller on eBay:
Sintrol.  He's in Gurnee Il.  At the moment he has a 3-way Teflon diaphragm
valve with 3/4 sanitary fittings for sale, which is a nice valve design if
you want to throttle, but probably not so much for switching flow.  On the
other hand, it's pretty cheap, and it should work.  AFAIK, since it has a
Teflon diaphragm, it should handle the temperature.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ITT-Pur-Flo-3-4-Stainless-Teflon-Diaphragm-Vlv-3-Way_W0Q
QitemZ170252882068QQihZ007QQcategoryZ11809QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewI
tem

If you contact him and tell him what you want, there's a good chance he'll
have it and then he'll put it on an auction for you.  

I recommend installing valves and pumps and things like that with the 1/2 or
3/4 inch sanitary fittings.  They're nice.

Regards,
Mike Sharp

Kent, WA
[1891.3, 294deg] AR





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