How to clean 5/16 check valve spouts

[DrTimPerkins]

You throw them In the garbage, because as I found the slime snot and boogers builds up on the ball and prohibited it from seating properly eliminate it's check valve capability...

Is this what you're talking about?

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[blissville maples]

There it is don't waste your money, an extra 3x the price do do that???

[blissville maples]

But I used the clear ones not the adapter

[blissville maples]

Why do that...... One of these days I'll figure out how to turn autocorrect off

[blissville maples]

And by the way if you cut one off from the drop line and insert it backwards in other words put the part that would be in the tree back into the drop line it puts vacuum on it backwards and you can see it's malfunction

[DrTimPerkins]

There it is don't waste your money, an extra 3x the price do do that???

Except for the fact that what is in the photo is not a CV spout. It is a regular spout. All spouts do that at a certain point. I could show you dozens of photos of spouts from a bunch of manufacturers. At the end of the season they all look like that.

[DrTimPerkins]

And by the way if you cut one off from the drop line and insert it backwards in other words put the part that would be in the tree back into the drop line it puts vacuum on it backwards and you can see it's malfunction

And if you put the wrong end of a screwdriver on the screw it does work either. I guess we should ban all screwdrivers, and wrenches, and why not even sparkplugs....they don't work if you put them in the wrong way either.

[DrTimPerkins]

Why do that...... One of these days I'll figure out how to turn autocorrect off

Along the bottom of each of your posts there is a small grey bar. On the right side there are some commands....one of them is "Edit Post." Or you could learn how to use autocorrect....and maybe punctuation too.

[blissville maples]

Right but sometimes there may be multiple words that fit what is mistyped and the one you want may not be used by autocorrect. Haha screwdriver work when they are used right so Doesn't​ a spark plug..... But when a check valve is used right and then ends up failing- that's no good why ban a spark plug for using it right and having it work.....Who said ban check valves. Your right all spouts clog up, however they cost .17 cents after my discount not .40-.50 and they don't make me think I'm using a valve when it's not a valve after they clog up....Bit can't tell you anything about a check valve, I even showed you some at open house last year and that what u said well they all do...Right and as I said but they all don't cost .40-.50 cents
Man oh man here we go again

[unc23win]

Maybe leader needs to include installation instructions or a warning label with the CV2. I know the original came with instructions. I'm reminded of one other time someone said they didn't work right when they tried to use them as a check valve or something rather than as a spout.

The original post was about cleaning check valves that would be for producers who use them and believe they work to determine if cleaning them is possible and worth the time and effort. The gunk would be a prime example as to why not to attempt to clean them or reuse them (although there are a lot of variables as to the formation of such gunk even in season one)

It is not here we go again it is there YOU go again once again posting on and on about why you are against something rather than butt out of a discussion for those who might be interested in learning about others experiences related to the ORIGINAL topic.