What handwheel diameter to use for mud valves?

[TommyTran83]

What diameter handwheels are on a 10", 14", 16", and 24" mud valves with stem extensions?

 

[JohnRBaker]

Wouldn't you get that sort of information from a vendor's catalog?

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[TommyTran83]

You would think that they would list out the diameter of the hand wheels that are being used on a Mud Valve, but they don't.

 

[JohnRBaker]

The 'Mud Valves' that I found on the web didn't even come with hand wheels. It looks like even if you add a stem extension, that the use of a 'hand wheel' is purely optional with most showing a simply square 'operating nut'.

http://www.trumbull-mfg.com/products/cast-iron-mud-valves

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Digital Factory
Cypress, CA
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[Artisi]

Ask a valve manufacturer, this can be undertaken using a thing called telephone or be very hi-tech and use computer.

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