3 more ways to ruin your pump A couple of months back I shared with you three all too common mistakes I see our clients’ maintenance teams make that damage their pumps and shorten their lives, leading to costly repairs, more downtime and unnecessary replacement. So if you have budget to burn and really want […]
A Vital Lesson In Double Checking Your Pump Specifications (you’ll be glad this didn’t happen to you). A while ago now, we were approached by an engineering firm (who will remain nameless for obvious reasons) to quote on a pumping system for their customer on peanut butter. The engineering firm had been engaged to design […]
Getting the Longest Possible Life Out of Your Air Compressor A good air compressor should only be noticed when it isn’t working. The rest of the time it hums away doing its job so that all of your factory’s vital functions can continue on, as expected. Downtime is frustrating not only because something you […]
Viking XPD 676 API Compliant Pump Viking has just stepped up promotion of their new XPD 676 range, so we thought it would be a good time to review their offerings for chemical, petro-chemical oil and gas process applications – the XPD 676 pump series – the first internal gear positive displacement pump to be […]
On The Front Page of ‘Processing’ Magazine! One of Pye-Barker’s pump suppliers – ARO was featured on the front cover of ‘Processing’ Magazine. United DMS (the largest silver-bearing film recycler in the United States) worked through several other unsuccessful alternatives, before using ARO’s pumps and monitoring systems to drive their fluid recovery systems. They have […]
Product Review: Gardner Denver IQ Blower Packages We’ve got clients in multiple industries using Gardner Denver IQ Blowers for applications including pneumatic conveying, vacuum and aeration in wastewater treatment. However, I know there are clients and customers who should be using them but aren’t. I thought it was time to do a review of the […]
Buy The Right Air Compressor I don’t know why this is, but we see a lot of customers underestimate their requirements when they are purchasing an air compressor. They often neglect the volume of air needed and neglect the quality – how dry the air needs to be or how good a filter is required […]
Pumps are a lot like the human body. Keep them healthy and they will provide you with a lifetime of good health and worry free living. In all the Krav Maga classes that I teach see this as well, the students who take the best care of their bodies, get the best performance out of […]
“In The Absence Of Information People Will Buy Based On Price.” I’ll admit that I can’t for the life of me remember who said that but I don’t believe I have the genius to think it up myself. And the default information finder of the 21st century, Google – hasn’t helped at all. When clients […]
Viking Motor Speed Pumps I’ve just gotten my hands on some of the new Viking Motor Speed Pumps. And frankly I’m fairly impressed. For Pye-Barker’s clients these look like they are the perfect product for applications where you are pumping low viscosity liquids at high speed and capacity. What these pumps are ideally suited to […]
