by bitboyz | Sep 25, 2017 | Fall 2017, Feature Article
If you’re working on an upright valve, you’ve got many things working in your favor. The first is gravity. From a vertical orientation, you can be pretty sure that gravity will help the bonnet OD and the body ID align a whole lot easier. The bonnet can be...
by bitboyz | Sep 19, 2017 | Fall 2017, Feature Article
There is nothing worse than a pressure seal leak or blowout in a plant when it is running. So, it is important to understand the key factors when replacing one in the field. Our Engineering team has spent three decades designing various graphite pressure seal...
by bitboyz | Sep 11, 2017 | Fall 2017, Feature Article
You’re doing maintenance on a check valve and repairing the seat. So, you’ve removed the bonnet to get to the trim and find the pressure seal cavity is damaged. Now your work has doubled. But when every minute is money, how do you make sure you’ve got the right...
by bitboyz | Sep 5, 2017 | Fall 2017, Feature Article
Once upon a time, a metal pressure seal was a standard component for every high-pressure valve manufactured worldwide. But when power plants began cycling multiple times a day and going longer between outages, it changed the whole ball game. Metal can’t take...
by bitboyz | Aug 25, 2017 | Fall 2017, Feature Article
If you’re a valve repair and maintenance customer and you bought the VSG graphite pressure seal during the spring outage, we want to thank you for your business. But maybe, you haven’t purchased yet and still have some doubts about how severe service graphite pressure...
