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AiR: Ball Check Valve
Maki
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Posted: Thursday, March 23, 2017 - 03:14 PM UTC


All in Resine specializes in producing accessory sets for dioramas and vignettes in form of 3D printed pieces. This review covers one of the 1/35 scale valve kits recently offered from the company: Ball Check Valve (50mm with Pipe Line (AC5016).


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justplanestuff
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Posted: Thursday, March 23, 2017 - 09:52 PM UTC
0For what it is worth I believe AiR misnamed this part. It appears to me to be a gate valve a type of block valve characterized by a hand wheel on top. This valve stops flow in both directions and is operated manually. A check valve is made to keep flow from going the wrong direction in a pipe and shouldn't have any manual operations (hand wheel). I am in the USA and maybe wherever AiR is from uses different terms for their valves.

That said it looks pretty nice and could be quite useful, although I would have designed it with holes in the flanges on each end to make it easier to join to tubing as opposed to lengths of piping possibly needing added length.
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Posted: Thursday, March 23, 2017 - 10:32 PM UTC
I think you are correct David. Thanks for the explanation.

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Posted: Friday, March 24, 2017 - 06:56 AM UTC
I have NO idea where I'd be able to use something like this but kudos for them fostering the technology that went into it!
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Posted: Saturday, March 25, 2017 - 09:17 PM UTC
Add some drinking straw pipes and some of the terrorists from Trumpeter for a "Red Storm Rising" inspired Diorama.

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