Beananimal Overflow - Ball or Gate Valve?

[sphelps]

With a Beananimal overflow it's similar to a herbie but has a third drain which is a standard standpipe. The idea is to adjust the valve so you get a small amount of flow through the standpipe. This is easily achieved with a ball valve, I see no reason really to spring for a gate valve. If you want to fine tune it with a gate valve then simplify the overflow and go straight herbie with only two drains but IMO using a gate valve on a Beananimal kind defeats the purpose of that particular design.

[ScubaSteve]

Originally Posted by Tyler Werbowski

I posted a "hail mary" in the buying forms. If no one has a gate valve in Victoria it looks like I'll have to order one.

Just want to make sure that this will do the trick? I think I want the slip to slip rather than threaded.
Please advise.

http://www.conceptaquatics.ca/index....-ii-sch80.html

Thanks in advance...

I actually put slip-slip unions on either side of my gate valve. That bastard is expensive, so it's getting recycled through many future builds.

[scubadawg]

Originally Posted by Tyler Werbowski

I posted a "hail mary" in the buying forms. If no one has a gate valve in Victoria it looks like I'll have to order one.

Just want to make sure that this will do the trick? I think I want the slip to slip rather than threaded.
Please advise.

http://www.conceptaquatics.ca/index....-ii-sch80.html

Thanks in advance...

I wpuld go threaded, I just setup my Bean animal, and took photos, will be posting on my 187 gallon tank build later today