Stainless Steel Soft Touch Valve

No More Tired Hands With This Soft Touch Valve

This is the "soft opening" control valve for wands. It makes your wand easier to use with a longer life.

The "soft opening" control valve makes wands easier to use with longer life.  Designed for 1200 psi (1500 psi for stainless steel), and tested at higher pressure, these valves are for popular mounting patterns, and have retrofit brackets available as well.  The 30°­ offset is ideal for your solution lines without extra fittings or bulk.  Our Stainless Steel ball and Teflon seat makes a long lasting seal and is self cleaning and self-centering every time.  The combination of these features and the design make this valve the "soft-opening" valve that is becoming so popular in the industry and allows you to throttle the valve at any pressure.  No more stress on the hands as the "soft opening" feature uses less power from your hands, even at 1000+ psi.

Soft touch valves are a frequent topic of discussion on the Internet bulletin boards of our industry. Owner/operators love the reduced stress on their wrists, hands, and fingers. They operate smoothly, don’t require as much force to squeeze the trigger and are comfortable to grip. Ergonomics is the word to describe this design that considers the health of the technician. No more numb fingers, carpal tunnel syndrome, or similar problems. Great for any company that wants to keep all its techs healthy and productive.

Scott Warrington

These “soft-touch” valves are a great upgrade to most wands, including the AW29 and Prochem wands.  Some of their features are:

SS ANGLE VALVE

• The only stainless steel angle valve in the industry with soft opening control valve. • 2000 PSI pressure rated. • SS and teflon seals. • Universal design, fits PMF, Pro-chem, Kingston, CDI, and CMP. • Repair kit (20-0019) - optional. • Also known as 'Feather Touch', 'Soft Touch', etc.

The history of control valves in the carpet cleaning industry has seen the use of valves designed for other industries, adapted to carpet cleaning tools in a sometimes haphazard way. Valves designed for 200 and 400 PSI have been adapted for 1000 PSI. Valves for straight-thru flow were adapted by adding a 45° ell to use with the solution line. Valves have been used with a flat seal and seat concept, inviting seat damage from dirt and sand in the solution line. Valves were used that were hard to open and would slam shut.