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Well, I discovered that Brasscraft not only makes the crappy plastic rotor valves that I was using, they make an actual ball valve angle stop. But in the meantime, I picked up some Lasco angle stop ball valves and they seem to be pretty good. I installed about half a dozen and I will see how...

Thanks Rickyman. I will check out the Dahl valves. Do you find the multi turn valves more dependable overall? When you say you switched back to the mulit turn, which brand did you switch back to?

Not helpful. Anyone else have any experience with SharkBite fittings?

How so? I thought this was the general plumbing forum. Which forum would you suggest?

The SharkBite site mentions installing their fittings to a certain depth. They show a chart listing the different depths for different size pipe. And their deburring tool functions as a depth stop. Anyhow, the question is this: is this depth a MINIMUM so that the seal engages? What if you...

For a while now I have been using BrassCraft quarter turn stop valves (model #29). These are not actual ball valves, they are the valves with the cylindrical grey plastic rotor which rotates inside the chrome plated valve. I have used about 50 or so of these and the problem with about 10 of...