Accommodate Large Variation
One essential element to successful sealing with an O-ring, is tightly controlled, flat, parallel surfaces and adequate groove space. When grooves have large tolerances, are excessively out of round, or substrates have large clearance gaps, a standard seal can have drastically reduced life or worse, immediately leak.
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Specialty seals are available for instances when the hardware cannot be controlled:
- Axial: Large gaps or tolerances
- Radial: Eccentricity and side loading
Axial Gap & Excessive Tolerances
Specialty seals are designed when hardware cannot be changed or controlled.
August 8th, 2024
Eccentricity & Sideloading
The easiest way to describe eccentricity is to imagine looking down into the piston, and visualize the groove is a circle inside a second circle, which is the bore.
August 8th, 2024