Can You Set a Relief Valve Using a Hand Pump?

Photo credit: Colin Kinner

A millwright recently completed a 5-day basic hydraulics training. He plans to use his recently acquired hydraulics knowledge to check and set the relief valves in the circuit shown below, using a hand pump. Valves 04 and 06 are both relief valves (no external drains are shown). The rear section of the tandem pump 01 provides two pilot pressures: Pp1 … Read more