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Assemble and Install Float Valve System

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You've never seen livestock watering system like this! Automatic No Electricity!

What happens here

Unbox the float valve kit (e.g., Dare-O-Matic Farm Tank Float Valve). Ensure all components, including the float, cotter pin, rubber washers, and mounting brackets (L-bracket or U-bracket), are accounted for. Insert the cotter pin through the float housing to secure the float mechanism. Attach the selected mounting brackets to the float valve unit. Connect a PVC shut-off valve to the float valve using a male pipe adapter and Teflon tape to ensure a watertight seal. This allows for individual trough maintenance. Mount the assembled float valve system to the edge of a water trough using the provided wing nuts or screws, positioning it in the middle of the tank to minimize damage from livestock. Ensure the hose clamp on the poly pipe connection is easily accessible for future adjustments.

Goal: Assemble the automatic float valve kit, connecting it to the poly pipe and mounting it securely onto a water trough to maintain a constant water level.

Tools and materials

  • Pliers
  • Screwdriver
  • Dare-O-Matic Farm Tank Float Valve Kit
  • Male Pipe Adapter
  • PVC Shut-off Valve
  • Teflon Tape
  • Water Trough

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tank valve setup works this is how your valve kit will come up okay we'll open the box up here and we'll show you exactly what we have to do there are two ways that you can mount this valve kit okay so here is the kit this is the valve setup and that is the float it all comes separate you know make sure you hang on to that little guy okay I'll show you how its assembled real quick comes with a bag of hardware with a map on it hang on to that you'll need it we bought four of these we bought two of the metal style like this and we bought two well the plastic style part of farming is experimenting and seeing what works the best well the plastic holdup better than the metal I have my doubts however they're priced pretty comparable so this is already assembled ready to rock and roll this is what we have to do inside this little baggie is a lot of hardware this is important there's a cotter key right here that's what holds our float in place there's a little tiny pinhole right there I'm gonna slide that through comes out the other side just like so make sure your float just hung up in there good okay and then we'll Bend our Cotter key back I'm just gonna bend one side of the Cotter key right here just like that that's how I've done it okay our float is in there it works and you can see this is the valve this is the actual valve right here okay that rubber piece closes the valve down deep in this our rubber washers and they actually put some extra valves so if this thing ever wears you've got extras hanging onto those put them in your water bucket for all your watering needs your plumbing bucket whatever you want to do so we'll slide this guy down in place I guess this could serve as a how-to video slide that guy down in place and that's what your valve closes up against so the rubber piece and the inside closes against that and then this is a washer that goes in place right here and this is designed to take a water hose now we've retrofitted ours a little bit we'll show you that in a second so we have two different mounting brackets we have a mounting bracket that looks like this like an L bracket and then we have like a u bracket okay so this is for hanging on the edge of a water tank or water trough in case you're not going to hang it on the edge of the water trough this is what you'd use so these guys are slid down in here just like so and then you would mount these to whatever you wanted to mount it up to in other words if you had a water tank and you just…

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