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knife gate valve installation tips

 

  Install the valve so that the arrows, on both sides of the body, are in the direction of positive pressure differential.

The preferred orientation is with the stem vertical and the handwheel pointing up. The opposite orientation is not recommended, because fiber and dirt can build-up in the bonnet.
 
     

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