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We have been informed by our vendor, Imperial Eastman, that our current Fill-Vent Valve (RPI Part #RCV052) will no longer be manufactured because the tooling has worn beyond use. Since many of our customers use this valve assembly in the Midmark-Ritter M7 & 7 as well as other machines on the market including the Ritter 1200 and 1250, we needed to locate a replacement quickly. But after a little brainstorming here at RPI, it was agreed that since 9 times out of 10 the O-rings are the only parts that really wear, a valve stem with O-rings would be all that's required to fix a leaky valve. Thus the RPI Valve Stem with O-rings and Lubricant kit (RPI Part #RCS097) was born. It's available now! Coming soon is the same type of kit but to fit the OEM valve! Of course you could just purchase the O-rings and lubricant from us and rebuild the valve assembly yourself at a very minimal cost. By the way, as it is not uncommon in this industry for the OEMs to protect their parts' interests via proprietary agreements with the original parts maunfacturer, so is the case with the original Fill-Vent Valve. So there's a difference between the OEM's vs. RPI's valve. The difference is the OEM valve uses two different-sized O-rings and RPI's valve uses two of the same-sized O-rings. (See "Service Tips" in the RPI catalog, Section 10, Page 801, Update 10/99.)
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