When My handle wouldn't open or close the Dump valve... it was caused by the cable coming loose from the metal Behind the handle I pull to dump.
The Cable that opens the valve operates much like a brake cable on a bike... it's held at two points... the handle & the other end is attached to the "GATE" of the valve. The center cable does the work... using the outer cable to guide the motion... If the outer cable separates from one end or the other... it ain't gona allow the valve to open.
When I did my fix... the plastic outer shield that covers the center steel cable that moves the valve... came loose where it attached to the bracket which was (in my Case) behind the frame... the dump handle is attached to the center steel cable only & moves back and forth freely inside the outer plastic coated cable.
IF the outer cable comes loose... the center cable shaft will not be able to open the gate valve to do the DUMP. It just flops around...
Sorry if I have confused you more... best I can do to describe what happened with ours...
Jon... now ya got me thinking.... I may have miss spoke... it could have been Jimtoo's idea... I just remembering reading it and as always was pretty pleased It did the fix for our problem !!!
Who Ever idea it was .... THANKS !
Marv
We have natural gas line to a grill on our deck. The gas line has a ball valve that used to have a small red plastic handle that looked kind of like this . Somebody working on our deck took the handle off in order to fit a new board to the deck and wound up losing the handle. are pictures of the handle-less ball valve. You can see on the side of the valve it says "1/2 1/2 P." I have tried to find anything like this online and also at a local hardware store, but to no avail. All of the handles I find look kind of like this , which kind of fit over the valve stem, but there is no good way to secure the handle, so it just kind of flops around.The valve stem or "knob" that fits through the hole is very roughly ~6mmx10mm. I think it was secured by a screw, but I am not sure.Question: how do I find the right handle? I can't just disconnect the valve and bring it to a hardware store because I don't know how to un-do the gas piping (and I would need to shut off my entire house gas line too, which I don't really know how to do). Any ideas? Thanks