the valve body and or combination of valve body and sleeve 24 conventional conduit 73 is configured to be received in the opening 64 of the sleeve 63 and be secured therein via a conventional adhesive an alternate ball valve 10 a is illustrated in fig5 since the components of the ball valve 10 a are nearly identical to the ball valve 10 and to minimize duplicative descriptive text the same reference numbers for the components described for the ball valve 10 will be utilized in the embodiment of fig5 but will have the suffix u201c a u201d added thereto more specifically the valve body 11 a is comprised of two parts 76 and 77 that are threadedly connected together as at 78 a sleeve 24 a is captured between the two parts 76 and 77 and operatively cooperates with the outer surface 26 a of the ball valve member 18 a as described above the primary difference between the embodiment of fig1 4 and the embodiment of fig5 is that the union joint connections 62 have been replaced with appropriately sized sockets 81 and 82 in the respective parts 76 and 77 of the valve body 11 a which are configured to snuggly receive therein conformingly sized pipe p in other words pipe p shown in broken lines in fig5 configured to be snuggly received in the respective sockets 81 and 82 can be adhesively secured directly to the respective body parts 76 and 77 using conventional pipe adhesive for a permanent installation the components of the ball.