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    Municipal Wastewater Pumps- Seal Mat'l Recommendations

    Piffer I agree with longeron for the use of SIC Vs SIC.For Stationary face you can use Alfa Sintered SIC and for roatary face use Purbid Gr.SIC of Pure Carbon.This face combination will give you best results. ACP
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    Mechanical seal leaking on BJ Deepwell pumps

    jjpellin, yes,precise trouble shooting and the best solution. Congrats, acp
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    Mechanical seal leaking on BJ Deepwell pumps

    nauticalmike, Viton's temperature limits are -15 deg.F to 400 deg.F. I do not see any problem with Viton.Could you please let me know the type BW seals you are using. It seems there is a problem of application engg. Regards. acp
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    Sealing against uncured RTV

    Mike, My handle is acp.I understood your problem.I have some experience on ball valves and other types.In my opinion what you will be required is some sort of sealing arrangement used in actuators.If you could provide me more details,like sizes etc. and most important operating parameters. i.e...
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    fasten aluminum to aluminum

    Tofflemire, In my opinion,if you are using shrink fitting for joining/ keeping these two components together,then there is no use of using loctite or any adhesive as while fitting these two components the layer of loctite will get vanished and no straces or layer of loctite will be there to...
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    Selection of Sealing plan for Pumps

    Hello, If you could give me operating parametere, I can suggest you the seal and system also Regards. ACP India
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    Gear Box / Oil Seal Leakage

    Sealguy, In my opinion no standard oil seal work on this duty as the shaft dia is too high and speed is also on higher side.You will have to calculate PV value. I suggest to go for specially designed oil seal or best way is to go for low cost/low duty mech. seal. If you could let me know the...
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