Quick-Lock Tubing for your Compressor Lines You’ve set up your dream shop for woodworking or mechanical work. Or you’re expanding into an automated production of a start-up manufacturing business. Among that shiny group of equipment is a new air compressor. You’ve laid out plans to distribute your air system around the walls with drop legs […]
Eluding the Inevitable Downtime Production Loss At least a few times a week, I run into a common thread among customers. They are in a rush to find a replacement pump because they are currently down and losing $$ every second their production line sits being, well, unproductive. I, of course, research all options available […]
Basic Pumping Principles 102 Last spring I was visiting with one of our customers in Middle Georgia. They were having two problems with an application involving a Viking L4724 Positive Displacement Internal Gear pump. Basically the pump was being used to recirculate their material in a large storage tank. However, they also used it to […]
There are many common causes for blower failures. Rotary positive displacement blowers (Gardner Denver, Sutorbilt, DuroFlow, etc.) are fairly simple mechanical devices. They consist of two rotors (2 or 3 lobes each) connected by timing gears, rotating inside a cylinder or housing. Their spinning moves air from inlet to outlet, pumping against the system backpressure. […]
Blowers are dumb beasts. They do not know nor care what is driving them. They just rotate and move air. There are a number of methods of driving a rotary positive displacement blower. The simplest and preferred method is a simple flexible coupling, driving the blower at the same speed as the motor. Woods Dura-Flex […]
Let Our Experts at Pye Barker Troubleshoot Pump Problems One of the major problems facing industry today is the limited number of people with sufficient skill and experience to diagnose and rectify the basic problems plaguing positive displacement pumps. Another difficulty is that the same lack of skill and experience is creating many of these […]
The Many Ways to Dry your Air We frequently receive calls for an air dryer. When pressed for specifics, the customer often has no idea how dry he needs the air to be. He may only need to remove liquid water and contaminants from his line. Or, he could need “instrument quality” air. The amount […]
Converting an AOD Pump to an Internal Gear Pump Many customers are becoming energy conscious and are reviewing existing production equipment to look for ways to save energy. One major item of consideration is the cost of compressed air. For fluid transfer requirements, many customers will use an Air Operated Diaphragm pump. For a typical […]
Basic Pumping Principles 101 from Pye Barker A few months ago I was in south Georgia with our salesman Chris Carlisle and we were visiting a bio fuel transfer facility. Essentially, this facility unloads bio fuels from tankers and stores the fuel until it is loaded into another tanker for distribution. This facility was having […]
Extend Air Compressor Life Long life is no accident. It is a result of healthy life practices and good care. The same rule applies to life of an air compressor. Good care and maintenance have a direct bearing on the length of trouble free service an air compressor can provide a customer. Recommended maintenance intervals […]
