so we even tell me you're still calling a plumber stick around my name is Bob from Bob's plumbing videos com you've landed in the right place I'm gonna solve your problem right now and guess what it's not gonna cost you a penny happy plumbing hey welcome folks Bob here from Bob's plumbing videos calm and in this short video I'm gonna explain to you the process that I used to go through in rebuilding a globe Bob I got a request from one of my youtube viewers asking if I can show them how to rebuild the globe valve and I told my would put this video up uh he had watched my videos on on choosing which you know which valve was right for your specific situation and you know whenever possible my valve of choice is the ball valve is the full port bull valve as you can see there quarter turn that bullet proof virtually leak proof this is a valve I would always choose to go with but he stated that he had quite a many globe valves in his home and it just wouldn't be you know possible to go changing all the valves could I show how to rebuild the globe valve and I certainly am going to do that in this video now this is a globe valve this is the valve I used back in the day when I was coming up into the trade pretty much this is what you would find down somebody's basement and this would control the water going up to the risers you'd find them under kitchen sinks on the bathroom sinks you know they were plentiful and this is what we used now globe valves are not like both valves in in that they're not full port valves actually they're very restrictive and as you can see the arrows going from right to left so you know you would have to put these in the right orientation so I'm gonna bring up a light here I just want to show you real quickly that if you look here see the water would enter the bottom of the valve then it would actually come up into the seat and then it would actually exit the top of the valve so would go in the bottom come up through the seat and then exit the top of the valve that's just the way it works now those seats weren't removable most Foust didn't have removable seats and when that seat went bad it got corroded it got nicked that got all screwed up it was time to change the valve just not too much you could do about it but if that seat remained intact let me move on and show you what you can do to to replace the washer and maybe repack the valve itself if you didn't want to go through the trouble to change the valve so we'll put that down and let's bring up the stem here now you know pretty much this valve has a washer just like in a kitchen faucet as you can see there so when the washer went bad the washers would get especially in the hot water it would get very hard very brittle almost like almost like ceramic like so when they lost their ability to you know to push up against the seat it was trying time to put a new washer in there so you'd come in here with your and in my case I got my little my little super tool here if my leather man this is my super tool of choice and we would just come in here and take the screw out and you take the washer out and you would just replace the washer you'd get a like washer just replace the washer put it in there and that was it now I don't know if you can see here let me bring that light back up again but most valves had like a cup on it and if you can see the washer would sit into the cup that little cup there and a lot of times this cup would get corroded and actually it would break off so you would have a flat surface so if you put a washer back in there and then you would continue to squeeze this valve closed the washer had no way of staying within that cup and the washer eventually would squeeze out and get all distorted and they actually sold and I don't have one to show you they sold little cups little brass cups that you could put the washer in place the washer in the new breast Cup place that breast cup right on top of here and just screw it back in now let's not forget too that a lot of times we would go to unscrew the screw in the middle of this valve and ultimately the screw head would break off and what that would happen we would end up having to actually drill and tap that screw a lot of times I would take an awl and I would go in there and I would actually put they all on the in the center of the broken screw tap it a lot of times if it was hollow behind there the screw would fall in because it was so rotten if it wasn't riding it and it was a solid on the bottom I would actually have to drill it at don't get a tap and die re tap it in a new bit screw and you can put a new screw put a new washer you could put a new Cup I we used to go through this believe it or not and and it's just you know things have changed in today's world it's just not cost-effective at least for me as a plumber to do that also when you would take this valve apart when you would actually disengage the valve so don't forget these valves were probably in there for years and years and years and years and years and when you actually back this off you broke the seal with the original washer and this little wash or you're seeing here this little red washer is probably all dry brittle it's gonna break and and it's really it's gonna be time to put a new washer in there and a lot of times we didn't have access to washes we just use good old-fashioned graphite packing which I'll show you about in a minute also the the pack the packing would leak especially again if you've never used these valves and then all of a sudden usually what happens the first person to come along to turn these causes them to leak and they probably been in there for years before they were used and all the packing in here got all dried out and brittle so you would simply in this case is a nut so we're going to take this handle off take the handle off and then we would back off the packing nut and inside here you're gonna see that there's a little rubber washer but that rubber washer would be so brittle it would break it would chip off and what we would have to do is back in the day I would use graphite graphite but old you know string graphite packing and you would go in there and you would just take this and and and you would do this in pieces in other words I put a small piece on here like this I'd snip this off come in put my nut I would run it all the way down until this actually went down into the cavity then I would follow up another couple of rounds okay again run the nut down and you would do that so on and so forth until you would built up enough of graphite that that it would fill up the whole inside of this nut and you would get to the point where you would tighten that up and you would you would you would actually work the stem back and forth back and forth back and forth until it got snug and you would actually see the yet the graphite kind of oozing out this nut here and when you were nice and snug you know you were in business now back in the day I use graphite I still use graphite today if I have to but today if you want if you can't find the graphite you can most certainly go out and find the Teflon they have Teflon that's in a roll and you most certainly can go in there and you could put the tough line in same process you put a couple of rounds on you break it off snip this off put your nut on run the nut down back it off again another couple of rounds put it in again until you've built up enough material to fill up the cavity inside this nut and you're back into business so that would take care of the stem and then around here because this washer generally would just break off it would come right off you would use I would use again I would use some graphite that would just run some graphite around here run it around one or two rounds and then I would just put that back into the valve body and I would usually be off to the races so again you could use graphite if you can find it but again I actually found this graphite this morning if you can believe in a nut in Home Depot and it's far and few in between you're probably more likely to find this teflon rope and you're more than welcome to put the teflon rope in there and again you snip this off and usually you know one of two rounds will do the trick for this for this particular washer and then you just continue to Snug that up with a pair of pliers and you'd be in business so let me back this addict oops excuse me let's put this washer back on here and review again if you lost this Cup if this Cup was totally flush I would suggest I don't know if you can find them anymore they used to sell cups and varying diameters so we used to take the washer put it in the cup put it back in there so you take your washer if the cup is good there's not a problem you just go out and find yourself a washer you put your screw back in here you want to slug that up a bit and again when you're when you're when you're putting the stem back into the valve body make sure make sure it's in the open position so we don't want to be we don't want to be here when you're when you're screwing this into the body because you'll smash the washer and you'll destroy this down make sure you're in the fully open all the way open we're going to fully open up this globe valve once that's all the way in the open position we can then proceed to put this in here you're going to Snug that up with your channel locks get that in there real snug and once you're in there snug you can proceed to close the stem and you'll feel that washer hitting up against the seat and you should be in business guys so that's pretty much it I mean if you're gonna go through the trouble of rebuilding a globe valve I mean that's that's pretty much the process to do it it's not that difficult it's just that for me it's not cost-effective you know I got to get myself in a truck get myself to your house and I don't want a chance going through the the trouble of rebuilding a valve and then having having getting a phone call later on say you know that you rebuilt the valve and it's leaking etc for me as a pro I replace the vows I put a put a ball valve in and I'm on my way but for you as a homeowner this is a pretty simple process again whether you use the graphite or whether you use the the teflon rope makes no difference to me they both work and guys that's pretty much it I hope you got some useful information out of this video and as you can see it's not that difficult to rebuild the gold valve if you have to I used to do it all the time as a young man and it can be done so guys go have at it I wish you luck and I hope to be seeing you future videos stay well be good and as always happy plumbing