The Valve-Out valve/meter replacement and flange-spreading tool is a game changer for municipal customers everywhere. With over 300 units sold to various water departments in the last three years alone, the Valve-Out tool is empowering smaller maintenance departments to perform work in-house that would otherwise be contracted out.

How it helps

The Valve-Out tool is a zero-gap flange spreader, which allows you to spread flat-faced flanges where there is no gap. When used with the included (12-inch in standard kit) spacer bar segments you can span across valves or meters to replace them safely, quickly and easily in the field. The Valve-Out tool helps you create the ¼- or ½-inch space needed to swap flanged valves or meters in compressed piping and reinstall the gaskets in a fraction of the time or effort.

“I don’t know how a water or sewer utility can be without this tool,” says one city’s director of utilities. “It’s a major improvement to the old way of doing things. Our employees are safer and more productive.” 

Another water plant supervisor says “the last time we did this type of work, we prepped the day before and it still took us eight hours. With the Valve-Out Tool we finished in 2.5 hours, including an hour to drain the water level. What a labor saver!” 

Speciality Maintenance Products has delivered safer and more efficient tools to pipe maintenance crews all over the world for more than 20 years. The company serves the refinery, petrochemical, midstream, pipeline, power generation and water and wastewater industries, as well as the maintenance and TAR contractors who service these areas.

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