It's a good idea to work your shut off valves back and forth periodically so they don't corrode in place, and you can't shut the water off in an emergency.
It was the screw faucet I was thinking of because it can be taken apart without being uninstalled. Of course, cutting out the old ball valve and putting in a new one with PEX crimps is probably no more time or hassle than taking a screw faucet apart, grinding down the seat & installing a new washer. It is were sweated copper, the screw faucet would be the obvious winner.
That's one advantage of a well system. All you have to do is hit the breaker. Of course, some of us have been known to pop the lid off of the municipal meter cover and put a wrench down there, if circumstances require...or so I've heard. But your advice is well-taken. Because of this thread, I've been turning on the tap and cycling the ball valve to see if I can free whatever is in there. It's not letting a lot of water through...just enough to be annoying.
I think so too, worked for us for years, very dependable. Maybe, something like this. Eastman's 1/2" PEX x 1/2" PEX Straight Stop Valve controls water flow to household plumbing fixtures. With multi-turn, you are able to stop the flow of water
I have an electric distiller I bought on amazon and a berkey for emergencies. I also have a stainless steel buck with inserts for over a fire to distill.
If push comes to shove, the creek on my property is fed by a spring that my neighbors used to draw their water from before they had a well drilled. I'm sure it's clean.
Scottish Softest water in council's system from Tom's Loch. It's such good and tasty water that we have our own specially blended tea. It's called Scottish Blend...
I have a creek and a pond but neither is guaranteed clean. I have a sand filter for the farm, too, if the worst happens.
There are conflicting studies. The main culprit in tea is oxylates, which can bind with calcium and cause stones. -Black tea has 14mg-27mg oxalate per cup. -Spinach has 1,500mg oxalate per 1 cup cooked. So some folks see oxylate in tea and say "Don't drink it!" But the amount is so tiny as to be irrelevant...you just gotta avoid the high oxylate stuff. And some studies have shown that drinking tea (and coffee) reduces the risk of kidney stones, probably due to the diuretic effect of caffeine. I kind of wish this subject had not come up, because I'm going in to the urologist on Friday to have a couple of kidney stones fished out of me. But more to the topic of filtration...it had been well over 10 years since my last kidney stones, and the amount of unfiltered/unsoftened water I got just from coffee when I first moved here (I was using bottled water for drinking) brought my kidney stones back in a weird sand-like form. It was as though the minerals were going right through me without taking the time to form crystals. They went away as soon as I stopped using my well water for coffee. It was very odd.