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Valve Box Asset Management and Maintenance Tools for Water and Gas Distribution

Posted by Mark Beatty on Jan 14, 2019

Article about various tools to open, maintain, and repair underground water or gas valve boxes. Includes magnetic lid lifting tools, lid hammers, valve keys and clean-out augers, mud plugs, lid hammers, and the Kerf Cutter valve box top repair tool.

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Tags: Asset Management, Clean-Out Auger, debris cap, lid hammer, magnetic lid lifter, valve, valve box, Valve Box Clean-out, Valve Box Key, Valve Box Repair, valve box tool, Waterproof valve tag

Valve Box Asset Management and Maintenance Tools for Water and Gas Distribution

Posted by Mark Beatty on Jan 14, 2019

Winter Valve Box Asset Management

Posted by Mark Beatty on Dec 04, 2018

Are your valve boxes prepared for winter? There are some things you can do to make your life easier, job in the spring easier, and save some money in the long run with valve box asset management. These involve keeping valve boxes from getting damaged from snow plows, insuring that lids are secure to keep out winter salt, debris, an grime, preventing a long spring valve box clean out program, and finding the valve boxes in the winter snow and ice. If you have a winter main break and need to either access the valve box for a leak detector or leak correlator will you be able to? How much water may leak and freeze if you have to thaw out a frozen broken valve box to shut off a valve in large main break, or if you have to wait on a vac truck to do the clean out?

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Tags: Asset Management, Asset Tag, Kerf Cutter, Mud Plug, valve box, Valve maintenance

Save your back and knees when lifting water valve box lids

Posted by Mark Beatty on Mar 30, 2017

Magnetic Valve Box Lid Lifter We have uploaded a video demonstration of the MVB-24 Magnetic Valve Box lid lifting tool. With this tool to can lift most valve box lids out of the ground without bending over, getting on your knees with two screwdrivers, or pinching your fingers. This unbelievably strong magnet rated at 249# lifting strength easily lifts most iron or steel valve box lids out of the ground. If stuck, the railroad spike t-handle can be used to pry or help chisel lids loose. There are other handy uses for a strong magnetic lifting tool at the bottom of...