O-rings
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October 24, 2024
Customized Cryogenic Face Seals for Liquid Oxygen Rocket Turbopumps
With demand for services provided by low orbit satellites ever expanding, there is no shortage of new launch vehicle requests. The communications, navigation, and weather services most people have become accustom to are all made possible by the thousands of satellites orbiting the Earth each and every minute.
While
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October 11, 2024
Diagnosing Damaged O-Rings
Making sure you have the right O-ring is critical to avoiding leakage in your product or machinery. But if an O-ring fails, do you know how to diagnose the problem? Can you tell the difference between wear and compression set problems in a flattened o-ring? Identifying the right root cause is critical to solving the problem of damaged O-rings. Watch the video below to learn how to diagnose some
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September 13, 2024
Gallagher Fluid Seals is a Parker Distributor and is proud to be one of the few premier distributors to qualify as a “Parker Seal Technology Center (STC)”.
Why Parker's VX065 is the Future of Elastomeric Materials in Aerospace
While reviewing Parker's extensive selection of material offerings, one might notice that Parker EMG does not immediately have a material that is certified to this AMS7254 specification. Parker is not alone, however. As of the time of this
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August 13, 2024
Gallagher Fluid Seals is a Parker Distributor and is proud to be one of the few premier distributors to qualify as a “Parker Seal Technology Center (STC)”.
How to Read a Rubber Test Report
The Most Common Rubber Test Report Misunderstandings
It's a common misinterpretation: an engineer, buyer, quality analyst, or someone else entirely looks at a rubber test report, reads the numbers on it, and comes up with the wrong conclusion. Pass / fail limits and
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August 09, 2024
Optimizing Seal Selection: From O-Rings to Press-In-Place Seals
What is the right seal for my application? The question is simple, but the answer may not be as straightforward as you would expect.
The inputs for selecting the proper seal type are complex.
- Is it a static or dynamic seal?
- Is it a face seal or radial seal?
- How is the seal installed during assembly?
- What options are available for seal retention?
- Is there room in the mating hardware
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July 02, 2024
Gallagher Fluid Seals is a Parker Distributor and is proud to be one of the few premier distributors to qualify as a “Parker Seal Technology Center (STC)”.
Reduce Maintenance Costs When Sealing Dry Running Equipment
Pneumatic tools are common in factories, tool shops, and DIY garages around the world. Using compressed air for power is convenient, simple, and — when maintained properly — safe and efficient. However, air treatment costs can add up fast. Traditional
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June 20, 2024
Gallagher Fluid Seals is a Parker Distributor and is proud to be one of the few premier distributors to qualify as a “Parker Seal Technology Center (STC)”.
The emergence of degradable and dissolvable materials is providing oilfield service companies an opportunity to increase efficiencies and cut costs in the oilfield by simplifying well completions. These materials replace their conventional metallic and polymeric counterparts in completion tools, but eventually break
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June 05, 2024
Hardware Recommendations - Dynamic O-Ring Gland Design
What is an O-Ring Gland?
The O-Ring gland (also known as O-Ring groove) is a very important design feature for anufacturing both efficient and cost-effective O-Rings.
The most important consideration for gland design is that it allows for proper and complete compression between the groove and the mating surface. While the shape of the O-Ring relies and depends on the application, shape is generally unimportant.
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May 29, 2024
Metal Seals for Critical Valve Applications
In a typical oil refinery or chemical processing plant,
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May 10, 2024
Gallagher Fluid Seals is a Parker Distributor is proud to be proud to be one of the few premier distributors to qualify as a “Parker Seal Technology Center (STC)”.
Industry Regulations Force New Seal Material Creation for Propellant Use
Pressurized metered dose inhalers (pMDIs) have long been a safe and effective means of delivering inhaled pharmaceuticals for the treatment of asthma and other respiratory ailments. MDIs were originally developed to use the propellant
