Question on Flowmatic Pump Control Valves

[ATLPipeEngineer]

Hi,

I have a Contractor trying to submit Flowmatic Control Valves instead of Cla-Val Control Valves.

Has anyone had any experience with Flowmatic?

 

[bimr]

Rather than getting an anonymous answer on here, ask the Contractor to supply a listing of where the particular valve has been installed over a certain time period, say 3 years. If the Contractor can't supply basic information like that, you can stand your ground.

 

[wesley_pipes]

Good answer from bimr. Have the contractor give you a history of where they've installed.

We recently installed Flowmatic valves at a well head, but hasn't even been put into service yet. We'll see how well they turn out.

 

[JedClampett]

And the last step before you okay them is to call the installations and see how they're working. I had to do an alternate evaluation for blowers once and the list of installations were:
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[li]Plants where the blowers hadn't been installed yet.[/li]
[li]Plants in foreign counties with a time zone and language barrier.[/li]
[li]A few plants where the plant managers said they were pieces of crap.[/li]
[/ul]
We didn't allow them.