Hi,

I have a leak from my pressure adjusting valve.  This is the valve that is right above the main shut out valve (coming from the street)

The valve is a Brinkman and it is leaking right at the white knurled knob that has a flat screw head that you turn to increase or decrease the pressure to the house

Pipe is 1″.

My questions are:

1- Do I have to replace this valve? Or are there any other ways to resolve this?

2- Currently, the valve body has screw fittings at each end (input/output)  Each one of these threaded ends is connected to a short section of pipe that is sweated with a connector to the main line.  Can I get a replacement valve with sweat connections? It doesn’t look like it is possible to unscrew the fitting off and I rather sweat it.

3- I can’t recall the recommended pipe thickness (if I replace the surrounding pipe) K? M?

Thanks in advance for your help and advice.

Eug