Beswick introduced the smallest 10-32 threaded ball valves in the miniature fluid power industry. These 10-32 threaded ultra-miniature ball valves offered many advantages and, not surprisingly, when all the votes were counted the Beswick MBVMD-1010-303 ball valve won Design News Magazine’s The Best New Product Award in 2011.
The Beswick MBV-1414-3 ball valve is designed with ¼-28 UNF straight threads and a relatively large orifice diameter of 0.125 inch. It weighs only 34 grams. That isn’t much yet it provides more than three times as much flow area as the 10-32 threaded MBVMD-1010-303.