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   WayneL5 | Apr 05, 2004 05:03am | #1

   I don't think regulators are all that cheap.  If you can take it apart and inspect the internal parts you'd have a better idea.  If the replaceable parts are bad, then rebuilding is a good idea.  If non-replaceable parts (like the valve seat) are bad, then the whole regulator needs to be replaced.  It's mostly a trade-off of your money vs. your time.

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   DaveRicheson | Apr 05, 2004 01:08pm | #2

   Get the rebuild kit. It will cost you less than a new regulator.

   Question. How long was the Zurn regulator in place b/f it failed?

   We use Watts regulators, and may need to rebuild one out of twenty every ten years. High mineral content in the water is the culprit most of the time.

   Dave

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   WorkshopJon | Apr 05, 2004 05:38pm | #3

   "I decided to check the water pressure and the regulator appears to have given up the ghost."

   Dave,

   Are you on a well? or city water?  Why is the incoming pressure so high as to need a regulator?  Or did you mean the pressure sensing switch that turns on and of [your] well? 

   Jon

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   boag1 | Apr 05, 2004 11:25pm | #10

   It's city water and it runs about 120 psi. When I built the house years ago I put a water sprinkler on a slab, straight from the meter. It was shooting over very mature trees, very spectacular.

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   ed2 | Apr 05, 2004 07:04pm | #4

   dave- not worth the time to rebuild...use a watts regulator......

   cheap trick to monitor regulator's effectiveness, put a tee in-line both before and after regulator, install water pressure gauges to each tee, the type found on a well-style pump or water storage tank in a house......

   cheap parts, tells you pressure coming into house and pressure past the regulator, and if it's even working.... allows quick precise adjustment to regulator...

   
   

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   Edited 4/5/2004 1:19 pm ET by ed2

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   BillHartmann | Apr 05, 2004 07:22pm | #5

   "water pressure valves"

   I think that you ment guages.

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   ed2 | Apr 05, 2004 08:21pm | #6

    bill-    it's the alhzeimer's again.... did i spell that right?

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   boag1 | Apr 05, 2004 09:22pm | #7

   I think that's what Home Depot sales this week.  Hate to take it out, but that why I used unions.

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   ed2 | Apr 05, 2004 09:48pm | #8

   have to go to supply house for watts, only units had good luck with...someone mentioned high mineral content, think that's what killed the 8 to10 year old regulators had to replace...

   unions were good idea...more beer drinking time

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   JohnSprung | Apr 05, 2004 10:10pm | #9

   Our local Ferguson doesn't stock the Zurn/Wilkins rebuild kits.  They say they're too expensive, and often don't do any good.  The recommendations I've had all are for Watts.  Watts has different models, the rec's are for their U5B.

   -- J.S.