leaking valve

However, due to leaking valves there was relatively high wear on the 601N-engines, which had a life of about 40 hours.

It was a leaking valve detected during the fuelling of the rocket.

Some claim that because of bad maintenance and leaking valves, it was possible for the water to leak into tank 610.

This one was a leaking valve.

Such a rubber-washer-sealing-type cap also helps prevent air from escaping from a slightly leaking valve.

One spark entering the leaking valve and the exploding tank would send hot metal into its sister trucks' vulnerable shells.

The silence of the night was cut by a loud high-pitched hiss, like the leaking valve of a truck tire.

The launch was originally scheduled for 20 December 2010, but was delayed to allow a leaking valve on the upper stage to be repaired.

With regard to your point about Shell apparently not reporting the recent leaking valve for two days, why is that a problem, why was the reporting urgent?

An investigation concluded that the cause had been "a carelessly dropped cigarette" that had ignited fuel from a leaking valve on the ship's tanks.

Leaking valves can be corrected by mitral valve annuloplasty, a common surgical procedure that aims at restoring proper leaflet coaptation.

Water and foam sprays were trained on the two tanks to cool them so the team could move close enough to spray the leaking valves with potassium bicarbonate.

Baker IDI scientist, Dr David Kaye, and his team have invented a device that fixes a leaking valve in the heart.

The next Wednesday 31 August two other workers were sprayed with highly contaminated water when the water splashed from a container with a leaking valve that did not close.

The heart is put under more stress in order to either pump more blood through a stenotic valve or attempt to circulate regurgitation blood through a leaking valve.

A door at the foot of the stairs opened into a large area filled with machine sounds, the soft whir of ventilating fans, a quiet hiss of steam from a leaking valve, the regular pound of a pumping mechanism.

If the ballvalve on the feed-and-expansion tank jams open, it could cause the tank to overflow (remember that the overflow pipe is really just a warning pipe designed to warn of a leaking valve, and it may not be able to cope with the flow if the valve is fully open).