Flexible graphite is commonly used as gasket and packing material because of its heat management and fluid sealing properties, but it usage extends outside of the domain of industry. Currently researchers are finding a number of abstract uses for flexible graphite, not only due to its heat management and fluid sealing properties, but also its electrical conductivity, anti-corrosive properties, and resistance to aging.
The list of flexible graphite research encompasses a range of topics which include:
components their machines need in order to operate and produce their desired end product. The ways that tooling impacts a manufacturing operation are imperative. Not only is the tooling of your own manufacturing important, but also of the tools themselves that will be a part of your own operation. It’s necessary to have components that have been tooled to specifications, have high quality, and will perform under stress.
The end result of your operation’s tooling is going to affect every aspect of the business and its success. If an operation has been improperly tooled, then it will inevitably have a less efficient running cost, slowing things down. When an improperly tooled machine fails, it can have disastrous consequences, not limited to time lost, loss of product, and potential hazard to employees or customers.
INDUSTRY
Oil & Gas
CUSTOMER
Manufacturer of well pump equipment
BACKGROUND
The manufacturer was developing a new transfer and booster pump for oil well liquids & gases and wanted to prevent the
media from escaping. This variable speed compressor will see oil, gas and water with sand and/or paraffin’s, plus it is
designed to handle both liquids and gases.
In our continued effort to provide our customers convenient seal sizing guides, GFS is happy to present the newest technical bulletin.
Parker's 5-Dash series of o-rings are classified as commonly used o-rings sizes which do not fall in the AS568 line of o-rings and are also not true “metric” sizes.
After replacing the all-rubber cutlass bearing of his new Jeanneau Sun Fast 35 Tide The Knot two times in seven years, Robert Metzen sought an alternative. A fellow sailor told him about his positive experience with Hilube as a rudder bearing. Shortly after contacting Leandro Panzini from Vesconite distributor VesArg, Metzen had a state-of-the-art polymer bearing installed.
At 2,300 rpm, a sailboat engine will spin its propeller shaft a million times in less than eight hours. Cutlass bearing materials such as rubber and bronze wear prematurely. This creates excessive shuddering and can seriously damage an expensive shaft, log or strut. Metzen experienced severe vibration at 2,900-3,000 rpm.
Gallagher Fluid Seals’ customer is a global manufacturer of communications products, instruments, and sophisticated electronic components.
GFS collaborated with our FFKM supplier-partner to develop a low-temp 60 durometer compound that satisfied the needs of the customer’s rigorous temperature, environmental, and flexibility requirements.
Gallagher Fluid Seals has exciting news to start the new year. On December 31, 2021 GFS completed the acquisition of IES Technical Sales in Danvers Massachusetts. IES focuses on customers in the Semiconductor, Vacuum and Thin-Film segments, and operates in New England and New York State.