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Should you have a full-pressure leak, you can cut the copper pipe, slide on an open ball valve and use a press tool to crimp the valve onto the copper tubing.

A Flowserve’s facility in Tennessee will supply Pfizer with more than 200 ball valves that can handle the cold temperature requirements needed to support the mass production of the vaccine, the company said.

But with sales down 50 percent or more, they’ve expanded into party rentals to make up the lost revenue - from ball valves to bounce houses.

The device mimics the upper GI tract: an artificial stomach with a pressure pump, and a ball valve 'sphincter muscle,' leading up to the esophagus and throat.

An overflow is provided, discharging into the open air to allow the water to escape should the ball valve become defective.