bearings
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February 11, 2022
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
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January 27, 2022
Vesconite Bearings is exploring new engineering design methods, including reducing or eliminating grooves, where possible, in industrial and marine applications.
Vesconite’s bearing materials are internally lubricated so, when replacing traditional materials, Vesconite is challenging engineers to explore designs that remove redundant or superfluous grooves for cooling lubricant or water.
For instance, Vesconite
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December 22, 2021
As winter rolls around here in the United States, it's time to talk about the benefits of Vesconite in cold, harsh climates.
In parts of the U.S., some commercial snow blowers and throwers are fitted with Vesconite bearings. The bearings are on both sides of the auger gear box and come into operation if the auger shear breaks and the power continues. This allows the gear box and transfer shaft to keep turning when the auger jams.
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November 12, 2021
Vesconite Hilube bowl, stuffing box, suction, and line-shaft bearings continue to operate in a condensate pump ten years after installation.
This long-standing Vesconite customer located in Virginia reported the success to pump representative Charlie Simpson in October 2021.
The customer is a pump repair workshop that offers timely and cost-effective repairs and specifically offers upgrades to shafting, bearings, and wear rings to enhance performance and efficiency in older pumps as well
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September 17, 2021
Many polystyrene factories continue to use liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) pumps utilizing Vesconite piston-rod bushings. These bush and wipers help to clean the shaft and keep the contaminants out of the pump.
The bushings are used in Mevaco pumps, which supply butane from the butane bulk tanks to the machine that manufactures the polystyrene.
Butane is one of the blowing agents that can be used in the production of expanded polystyrene. The gas is used to make beads of polystyrene
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August 13, 2021
Vesconite Hilube Actuator Bearings for Wind Turbines
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July 09, 2021
A 54%-per-component saving has been realised by Powerworks following the replacement of bronze bushings with a Vesconite low-friction bearings in the Jetstream turbine starters.
This is according to Powerworks Manufacturing Manager who was responsible for the initiative to replace the bushing located inside a drive spindle that acts as a guide for the spindle.
Testing for normal operation
The Manufacturing Manager noted that the saving has been achieved
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June 02, 2021
Vesconite Hilube bushings lasted three times longer in a heat exchanger used for the forced cooling of wine at a bottling company.
Forced cooling may be used to stabilise wine and prevent the future formation of tartrate crystals. The bottler forces tartrate crystals to form which are removed through a number of steps including filtration. This eliminates the need for wine-lovers to decant or filter their wine when drinking it.
“The temperature fluctuations caused the chrome
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April 30, 2021
When Vesconite Bearings’ team visited knife-gate valve manufacturer A.C.Valves to fully understand how its client was using low-friction wear-resistant Vesconite polymer guide strips in knife gates, the company was manufacturing two valves for a mine that had experienced a break-down.
The 20” valves had been requested the day before and the mine’s supplier was due to pick them up on the day of Vesconite’s visit to the company, which can manufacture 200 – 300 knife gate valves a month
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April 15, 2021
Difficult seal applications come from all industries and sectors of the economy.
While far-reaching operating conditions certainly consume their fair share of engineering hours, often one constraint also probes the boundaries of sealing technology and design ingenuity: limited hardware space.
The Client’s Issue
A manufacturer was using a pneumatically actuated cylinder to dispense a chemical in a production process. The piston was drawn back in
