[Shop-talk] Is this a shutoff?

[Dave Cavanaugh]

They are typically quarter turn plug valves.  The one in the picture 
looks (to me, anyway) to be in the "on" position.  They may or may not 
have positive stops, often not.

On 8/10/2015 2:13 PM, Scott Hall wrote:
> Sigh. Resurrecting this thread:
>
> Does it turn "off" counterclockwise and "on" clockwise?
>
> The water heater won't fire, and the shutoff is not turning smoothly. If I
> didn't know better, I'd think it wasn't supposed to be turning at all. I'm
> not entirely sure the gas is even on
>
> I think I'm going to turn the whole house off and start swapping these for
> regular quarter-turn ball valves with lever handles. There's a ball valve
> with a lever that terminates into an open length of pipe and opening that
> ball valve produces a whooshing noise, so there's gas behind the line to
> the heater. Could be the heater's dead--it's awful-looking and I should
> swap it anyway really.
>
> Might was well re-do the whole system while I'm there.
>
> So I guess now this is a: "any advice for someone about to re-plumb the gas
> lines in his house?" thread.
>
> Think I'll get a tankless water heater. Those seem to be the thing now.
>
> And I'll be running a line to the garage, too. It will need its own furnace
> and water heater (shower), or else for me to extend the hot-water heat into
> it. I don't think I want to do that.
>
> Scott
>
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 6:18 PM, Steve Hammatt, Mount Vernon WA USA <
> gsteve at hammatt.com> wrote:
>
>> Thatbs a shut off.
>>
>> Steve Hammatt
>> Mount Vernon WA USA
>>
>> *From:* Scott Hall <scott.hall.personal at gmail.com>
>> *Sent:* Monday, July 27, 2015 2:03 PM
>> *To:* Shop-talk at autox.team.net
>> *Subject:* [Shop-talk] Is this a shutoff?
>>
>> Guys,
>>
>> My gas line seems to be devoid of shutoffs. There's a few of these things:
>>
>> http://imgur.com/StikUPR
>>
>> Which I hope are shutoffs, and one obvious shutoff...on a pipe with an open
>> end. Opening that shutoff value produces a sound like gas moving.
>>
>> I can't find a whole-house shutoff (or a meter). I'm assuming it's
>> underground. The utility says I have gas service.
>>
>> The thing in the picture is just upstream of the water heater. I'm hoping
>> that's a shutoff because if it's not I don't know how to R&R the heater,
>> and the heater is on its way out.
>>
>> Also, there MUST be a whole-house shutoff, yes? I'd like to re-do a lot of
>> the piping under there, but you'd better bet I'm not touching it until  I
>> know it's off to the whole house...or at least shut off upstream of where
>> I'm working.
>>
>> If that thing IS a shutoff...how do it work? Or rather, how to I know when
>> it's open and when it's shut? Clockwise is off, counterclockwise is on?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Scott, hoping not to blow hisself up
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