00:00Best Brass Ball Valves Under $5 Real Talk, No Sales Pitch
00:04Ok, quick one for you today.
00:07If you're into DIY, air compressors, waterlines, fuel, anything like that, you need shut-off
00:12valves you can actually trust, and you don't need to blow a whole paycheck on them.
00:16I went through the listings, filtered out the junk, and found 5 brass ball valves,
00:21all under 5 bucks, that are worth every penny.
00:24Let's get into it.
00:26First up, the small red-handle brass shut-off ball valve with hose barbed connectors.
00:31This thing comes in 6, 8, 10, and 12mm barbed sizes, and honestly the red-handle is the
00:37first thing you're gonna notice because it makes the valve instantly visible.
00:41You glance at your air compressor setup and you go, oh yeah, that's the shut-off.
00:46It's rated 4.9 stars with over 4.800 sold, and it's 3.84.
00:51For water, air, fuel, gas, oil, it handles all of it.
00:56Rubber or silicone hose pushes straight onto those barbs and seals tight.
01:00Best money you'll spend all week.
01:03Now, if you'd rather have threads than barbs, check out the 1-8, 1-quarter, 3-8,
01:08and 1-1-inch brass ball valve with female-to-male threads.
01:11This is the one for copper pipe work, for anything where you need a clean threaded
01:15connection instead of a hose clamp.
01:17It's a 3.91 price tag, 4.9 rating, close to 4,600 units sold, so people are clearly using
01:25it and loving it.
01:26The threads are clean, the brass is solid, and it screws right into copper fittings with
01:31a wrench.
01:32Couple it with a coupler or adapter and you've got a proper joint.
01:36Third is the inline hose barb valve, 6-12mm.
01:40This is the simplest design here, straight through, hose barb on both ends, one lever.
01:46That's it.
01:47And sometimes that's exactly what you want.
01:51No tease, no adapters, no thinking about which way is female and which way is male.
01:56Push hose in, lever up for open, lever across for closed.
02:00It's 3.79, which makes it the cheapest of the bunch, and it still has a 4.8 rating with
02:06over 2,200 sold.
02:08Water, oil, air, gas, fuel all fine.
02:12Buy this one if you want your project done in 10 minutes.
02:16Now the odd one out, the Y-Type 3-Way brass valve.
02:208, 10, or 12mm hose barbs, and here's the thing, it splits one line into two,
02:25so you can shut off two branches with one valve.
02:28That's the feature that makes it special.
02:31For a compressor manifold, a fuel line that feeds two things,
02:34a water line that splits toward a spigot and a sprinkler, one valve instead of three.
02:39It's 5.26, so technically a hair over 5, and it's got a 4.7 with roughly 2,200 sold.
02:47Slightly lower rating, but the 3-Way function is worth the small extra.
02:51Alright, that's my 5.
02:54All links are in the description, and each one I picked out myself,
02:57there might be a size or two still available, so check before you order.
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03:06I'll see you in the next one.
