gasketing
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April 14, 2023
Lubricating Bolts for Your Gaskets
Our friends and partners at KLINGER Thermoseal recently did a survey with their customer base.
- 90% of their customers NEVER lubricate
- 10% of their customers lubricate sometimes
- 0% of the respondents indicated they ALWAYS lubricate.
Relationship between friction coefficient and gasket surface pressure
So, what's the effect of lubricating your bolts? This blog explores the relationship between
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March 24, 2023
Gore Joint Sealant and Gore Gasket Tape Series 500
Created more than 40 years ago, Gore Joint Sealant was the first form-in-place gasket. It was and still is a great sealing solution for steel flanges with large diameters, irregular shapes, or rough/pitted surfaces. It forms a thin yet strong seal when compressed and works in applications where bolt loads are low.
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March 07, 2023
High-temperature chemical processing applications require new approaches to valve-stem packing.
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February 09, 2023
GORE® Gasketing from Gallagher Fluid Seals
Gallagher Fluid Seals stocks a wide variety of GORE® Gasketing
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January 27, 2023
What is a Segmented Gasket and When You Should Use One
Segmented gaskets are manufactured by joining together multiple sections of material. Joining techniques employed include dovetailing, butt-joining, and beveling using the technique of "skiving."
Segmented gaskets are often necessary due to either the limited manufactured size of the sheet or to minimize waste generated with centers.
There are a number of situations where your product or process may require segmented gaskets.
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January 18, 2023
Sealing Sense for Gaskets
Safety is a concern at any industrial site. An Occupational Safety and Health Administration compliance specialist has stated that safety should be more than a priority: “Priorities in an organization can and usually do change. Safety and health need to be a core value of the organization.”1
Safety can be a case of values versus priorities. When it comes to sealing devices, perceived dangers sometimes are overlooked.
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November 24, 2022
KLINGERSIL® C-7400 Isolation Gaskets
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November 03, 2022
GORE UPG Ring and Full Face Gaskets
GORE® Universal Pipe Gaskets (Style 800) provide a reliable seal for steel, glass-lined steel and fiber reinforced plastic (FRP) flanges, in the full spectrum of strong acid, alkali, and solvent process media, including the most challenging thermal cycling and elevated temperature applications.
This single gasket solution can reduce the process safety and production
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October 27, 2022
The importance of gaskets to the overall health of your machinery and production is often overlooked. While gaskets represent just a fraction of the cost of the machines or systems in which they are installed, the consequences of a failure can range from nuisance leaks to catastrophic failure of a machine or process.
“Damage, downtime, lost production, along with non-compliance penalties, plus the potential for litigation and
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October 11, 2022
Rare and Ultra-Pure Resources Present Unique Challenge to Finding Appropriate Low Temp Gasket
Modern technology often requires rare or ultra-pure materials that can only be handled or obtained within extreme environmental conditions. These same conditions present unique and hazardous difficulties when transporting or utilizing these resources. Resources such as liquid oxygen, nitrogen, or argon; all of which are classified as “industrial gases” are handled well below the normal temperature
