This may seem counterintuitive, but if you are sealing a rotating shaft under pressure, the answer may well be that you do! The functioning of traditional non-pressurized radial lip seals is based on the formation of a sealing and…
Automatic vee packing has been around since the 1920’s, when duck-and-rubber tubing was used to seal steam engines. Over the years, its use has expanded to seal plungers and rod and piston bores in a wide range of hydraulic applications…
Autofrettage is a necessary step in the seal design production process for pressure-retaining vessels in which enormously high pressure is used to plastically yield internal portions of the part to produce internal compressive residual stresses once the pressure is released.…
As long as they are the same style and material, an oil seal is an oil seal. At least that is what most people think. Putting aside potential differences in material and concentrating just on actual geometry, this statement is…
