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Valve Woes

A project log for Budget BarBot

A BarBot for dispensing cocktails (on a budget)

david-hopkinsDavid Hopkins 08/31/2016 at 10:260 Comments

Once the frame was made i did some basic testing and found the valves to be leaky :-(

Part of the reason is the fact that the tubes have been held closed (squashed) for 18 months, this is not good for them despite being very tolerant Tygon tubing.

Tubing replaced, and still a bit of leakage, so i made some adjustments to the baseplate of the valve assembly:

Yup, i super-glued some little bits of Kynar wire to the plate, simple, but it works well :-)

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