Teardown Tuesday Episode 2: Combination Gas Regulator and Solenoid Valve

[@tonynixon5159]

Nice start to your Tear Down Tuesday video series. Thank you. One thing I would like to mention about gas valves that I did not hear. When installing or uninstalling gas valves, use the "wrench boss" fitting provided on the gas valve for your wrench to put torque on the valve body to loosen or tighten the valve to the gas lines or other piping. Putting your wrench on the body of the valve will cause damage to the valve. The body of the valve in usually aluminum and will distort/disfigure if too much torque/pressure is put on it and that will allow the gaskets, seals, springs, diaphragm's inside not to seat or move correctly or freely and cause failure or incorrect operation of the valve. We often get returned valves replaced under warranty with "finger prints" on them. The marks left behind from a pipe wrench or vice grip or channel locks I like to call "finger prints". This tells us the valve was either installed wrong and damaged from the tool used to install it or was damaged removing it. Hopefully it was from its removal but we cannot tell. Some manufacturers will not allow any warranty coverage on gas valves is any tooling marks are found on the body of the valve itself. Overall, great start to this series of videos. Thank you for your time to show these.

[@pbservano]

That is a Vulcan oven regulator.

[@dcvingeklipz99]

Will the adjustment of spring pressure increase or decrease pilot flame?