How to turn tight ball valves for people with weak hands. home-made product

Device will be operated with tight ball valves with handle "butterfly", it is easy to manufacture, and is available to everyone. Previously paid no attention to the ease of switching valves, easy spinning - well, tight, screw is not a problem.

Case study

And then there was the case, forced to think about this problem. Repairing the cistern of an elderly woman who showed that you can just turn it off and use a separate tap water, but due to the tight course, she could not move him. And she was not the only one, what do you do? Eureka!

Way out

At this point it can help out homemade lever which is half an hour and two corners of a piece of 25 minutes polypropylene tube.

Weld the corners in the 25th tube, do them two cuts, one longitudinal, transverse on the other. This is for convenience, so that you can capture the "butterfly" in two positions, because valves can be installed in different ways.

You can make different variations at different angles and even in the form of a screwdriver, the principle is clear. Optionally, use the plastic, come up and a piece of wood with a set screwKey-lever may make and from the metal fittingsBut polypropylene is the most comfortable material.

Have you experienced difficulties with tight valves, would use a homebrew twig, write in the comments.

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