Best type of valve

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Poll Results

OptionVotes
Four-way cock 4
Transmission solenoid 1
Valve stem 0
Rotolock valve 0
Rotary valve 0
Relief valve 0
Relay valve 0
Proportioning valve 0
Presta valve 0
Pressure relief valve 0
Plug valve 0
Rupture disc 0
Saddle valve 0
Trap primer 0
Thermal expansion valve 0
Tap (valve) 0
Sun valve 0
Solenoid valve 0
Slide check 0
Schrader valve 0
Safety valve 0
Safety shutoff valve 0
Plastic pipework 0
Piston valve 0
Pinch Valve 0
Duckbill valve 0
Diaphragm valve 0
Control valves 0
Check valve 0
Butterfly valve 0
Blowoff valve 0
Blast valve 0
Bjork-Shiley valve 0
Beer tap 0
Dustcap 0
Electric actuator 0
Pilot-operated relief valve 0
Pilot valve 0
Hydrogen valve 0
Heart valve 0
Guardian valve 0
Globe valve 0
Fuse (hydraulic) 0
Flow control valve 0
Faucet aerator 0
Angle seat piston valve 0


Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Friday, 10 October 2008 23:39 (sixteen years ago)

what, no poppet valve? this is populist, armchair valve-theoretics at its most ugly and fatuous

fantasimundo, Saturday, 25 October 2008 16:55 (sixteen years ago)

Ironically, knowing the best type of valve may indeed have saved humankind from extinction in 2011.

A faulty schrader valve was ultimately responsible for the untimely deaths of passengers aboard the Saviour II Shuttle bound for Mars.

Sadly, no one remained to see a single line appear on the now empty new answers page

Best type of valve

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in...

― System, Saturday, 01 January 2012 00:01 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

fantasimundo, Saturday, 25 October 2008 17:02 (sixteen years ago)

Four-way cock, obviously.

Rooty Hill v Licking Valley (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 25 October 2008 23:50 (sixteen years ago)

oh for a better name than Shiley

Blowoff has potential

but tbh can't see beyond AA's suggestion

100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Saturday, 25 October 2008 23:58 (sixteen years ago)

no 'ball valve'!?

milling through the grinder, grinding through the mill (S-), Sunday, 26 October 2008 03:34 (sixteen years ago)

yes, the pilot operated relief valve is obsolete since the invention of the four-way cock

fantasimundo, Monday, 27 October 2008 02:35 (sixteen years ago)

solenoid, cause at least I know what it is

lollipop van lil wayne (wanko ergo sum), Monday, 27 October 2008 02:37 (sixteen years ago)

three years pass...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Saturday, 31 December 2011 00:01 (thirteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Sunday, 1 January 2012 00:01 (thirteen years ago)


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