Five photographs that get your valve enquiry answered faster
Most of the delay in a cylinder valve enquiry is spent establishing what you already have. Five pictures, taken on a phone in about two minutes, remove nearly all of it.
When an enquiry arrives with a model designation alone, the first thing our team does is work out whether that designation means what the sender thinks it means. Markings get transcribed by hand, purchasing records outlive the parts they describe, and the same thread can be written three ways in three countries. That checking is where the days go.
Photographs collapse it. A valve photographed properly can be compared directly against the factory records, and the answer comes back in one round instead of three. You do not need a studio - a phone, daylight and a plain surface are enough.
1. The whole valve, from the front
Stand the valve upright on a plain light surface and shoot straight on, from about the height of the valve itself rather than from above. This is the picture that shows the overall shape: the hand wheel or lever, the body, and where each connection leaves it.
2. The whole valve, from the side
Turn the valve ninety degrees and take the same picture again. Cylinder valves are rarely symmetrical - a safety device, a residual pressure port or a second outlet often sits on one side only, and it disappears completely in a front view.
3. The markings on the body, close up
Every ANYI valve carries its model designation cast or stamped into the body, usually with a pressure figure and other factory marks. Get close enough that the characters are sharp and light it from an angle so the raised or recessed characters cast a shadow - marks photographed flat-on often vanish into the metal.
Send what you see, not what you think it says. If a character is worn or ambiguous, that ambiguity is information our team can work with; a confident mistranscription is not.
4 and 5. Each connection, along its axis
Photograph the thread that goes into the cylinder, looking along the axis so the whole thread length is visible, and then the outlet the same way. If either connection carries its own marking, or a nut, nipple or seat that comes off, show it.
These two pictures answer the question that causes the most back-and-forth in a valve enquiry: which connection is which. Our team confirms the exact-model facts against the factory record rather than reading dimensions off your photograph, but the pictures tell us immediately which records to compare.
What to write alongside them
Add the working pressure of your cylinder, the gas, the quantity and the delivery country in the message. If your application needs a safety device, say so - its setting is an exact-model fact and is confirmed for the model you choose.
If the valve is still in service and you cannot remove it, photograph it in place. A picture of a valve on a cylinder, with the markings legible, is worth far more than a careful description of one in a drawer.
Attach the pictures with your gas, working pressure and connections, and our team will come back to you by email.