Have a go at it. You may be on the verge of coming up with something very useful to our hobby. Al Messer --- Clif Walker <clif.gwr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi All, > As it is a bit quite at the moment here is an idea > that I have been toying with. > The other day I dismantled an old Kitchen Ceramic > Disc Mixer tap. The ceramic discs units are a very > nice sealed unit made from brass but having a couple > of plastic components inside as well as the ceramic > bits. > Having got the thing to bits and removed the plastic > bits I was left with basically a brass cartridge > about 20mm diameter, with the moving ceramic discs > inside but it would now need some spring loading > arrangement to keep the discs together. The actual > drive to the moving disc was brass with a splined > shaft. > The thought now is, with the right sort of adaptor > could it be used as a Regulator in a Boiler. The > Ceramics are heat proof, it has opening ports just > like a regulator, and the surfaces should pretty > well never leak. The only snag that I can see ,is > possible wire drawing effect on the edges of the > openings but even that should not mattter as the > discs slide over each other can it cannot be worse > than Brass. > > Any thoughts out there? > > Regards > > Clif > MODEL ENGINEERING DISCUSSION LIST. > > To UNSUBSCRIBE from this list, send a blank email > to, > modeleng-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word > "unsubscribe" in the subject line. > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com MODEL ENGINEERING DISCUSSION LIST. To UNSUBSCRIBE from this list, send a blank email to, modeleng-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject line.