Common Bellows Failures and Suggestions for Mitigation
While it is an extremely rare event, bellows can and do fail.
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Asset Management: A Plant Manager’s Best Friend
Information about the performance of a facility’s valves has never been more readily available—or more important.
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A VMA Technical Seminar Presentation: Leak Detection and Repair
By: Judy Tibbs, Editorial Consultant, VALVE Magazine
At the Valve Manufacturers Association’s Technical Seminar, held March 3-4 in Jacksonville, FL, attendees—who represented both valve manufacturers as well as end-users—heard from a diverse group of industry specialists on topics such as Fugitive Emissions Trends, Quality & Testing, and Evolving Technology.
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Preventive Maintenance and Repair for Sleeved Plug Valves
Preventive maintenance and repair for valves is an important part of keeping operations running smoothly and efficiently.
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Valve Repair Companies
It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little.
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Just Read the Instructions
Although the situation might change eventually, it’s a reality that most people working in the valve repair industry today are men.
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A Guide to Valve Cleaning and Specifications
Most of the time we only require that valves be free of basic dirt and debris before they are put in service.
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The Nuts and Bolts of Nuts and Bolts
Repairing a valve usually means discarding old fasteners and replacing them with new ones.
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Protect Me Please
Everyone in the valve industry should be in the protection racket.
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Suspicious and Counterfeit Valves: An Avoidable Danger
Counterfeit industrial products have been around a long time: The term “the real McCoy,” for example, comes from the self-regulating steam engine lubricator patented in 1872 by Elijah McCoy.
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