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Hi, this is Stacey stone of Chesapeake surgically Incorporated. I'm one of the SolidWorks dealer distributors. And today we're going to talk about servicing the rotor valve on the bottom of a buster Blaster 100 Soda blast pot.

The particular unit that we're going to be working on today is a 2009 unit that just came in used that I'm going to clean up and service and get it ready for resale. This is a rotor valve assembly. This is an air over electric actuator with the valve actuator here, valve here. There's a set of Teflon O rings inside the valve where your chrome ball is those Teflon O rings will need to be changed periodically due to where this is the only aware item in a soda works. Buster Blaster 100 Soda blast pot okay, this is a new valve assembly here. And this is what the O rings should look like. These are some worn O rings and you can see the edges of the one on the right there are worn badly this one's worn completely through. And this one has a bad spot right here. And typically you'll know that it's time to change these O rings. When the pod is under pressure, you're not blasting but you can still feel air or some soda coming out of the end of the nozzle. That's pretty normal. You need to change these about every two or 300 hours. Depends on what soda you're using, and depends on how often you're on and off to trigger. This is the valve assembly taken apart. This is the nut that goes on the front of the assembly. Your First Job ring is here, your ball valve, your second ring is down inside. And we will next segment we'll show you how to take that apart. Okay, step three, actually removing the rotor valve assembly. It's a couple of different ways you can do it. The way I like to do it is first off your relay assembly here there's a thumb screw on top, remove that and the relay will come right off the top. Next, you want to take a seven sixteenths and a nine sixteenths wrench and take your green air supply hose off of the actuator assembly. From there, if you follow your pipe down, you have a union right here. An adjustable wrench and a pipe wrench will take that union apart, you'd be able to take this whole assembly right off the pot and take it right up onto the workbench. All right in just a matter of a minute or two I was able to remove the rotary valve assembly from the bottom of the pot. And here's our assembly here. The next step will be to remove the black actuator from the valve and it's just two screws, one on the top here and one on the bottom here. Okay, I've removed the actuator from the valve assembly and put the valve assembly and device. Next thing you want to do is take a wrench and take your big nut off the front. Now, the first time you do this for you guys that have new pots, that nuts gonna be really tight. So you really have to make sure your valve assembly is tight in the vise. And you're really going to have to put some pressure on it to get it off. Now there's our oh our first O ring and I can see on this one that there's actually wear on so this is time to service this. This valve. There's our first ring just pop that out clean the surface and dropped a new O ring in your other O ring is down inside. Let's see if we can get the ball out. We'll get that ball I'm gonna take the valve out of the vise and then we'll go on to the next step. Okay, I took the valve assembly out of the vise there's our ball valve and what I all I have to do now is just turn this over and the ball will fall out. There it is. If I look in there, I hope you can see that but that O ring on the backside is really worn. That one hits the soda first before the second one. So we'll pop that one out clean surface dropped new O ring in there. Now the stem in the kit. There's four O rings, you'll get O rings for the stem also, those don't always need to be changed every time but if you want to go right ahead, just if you take that apart, put it right back together again exactly the way you took it apart. Also of note when you dropped the ball out of here, that valve assembly should have been closed the ball should have been closed off so no soda and air come out and Make sure when you put it back together again that the ball is in the closed position. If you forget and put it in the open position, what you can do, what will happen is, is when you power your pot back up, it's going to want to open itself up and when you push the trigger, it'll close it'll be just backwards. So just make sure that ball is in in the closed position. All right, here's our rebuilt valve assembly. all put back together again. And we just need to reinstall it back on the bottom of the pot, hook up our green air supply, put the relay back on and we'll do a final test. Alright, we're done. That completes rebuilding the rotor valve assembly on the bottom of a soda works. Buster Blaster 100 Soda blast pot. It's actually pretty simple. I had it done in about 1520 minutes. The first time you do it, it might take you 30 minutes just because you haven't done it before. But once it's done, it's a very simple project. Any of your soda works authorized dealers can supply you with the O rings for your valves. Just give them a call or call the guys at the soda works 1888508 Soda