Pump Shaft Seals

We specialize in single spring mechanical pump shaft seals for rotary / centrifugal pump applications. It's easy to replace your pump seals if you know what they are. If you do not have a pump seal number such as PS-100, you can identify what kind of seal you have, by comparing your mechanical seal components to the pictures.

Type A Type B Type C Type D Type E
(Click the above links for a cross sectional drawing of the selected seal.)

Spring Seals

Mechanical Seals: Working Length

The "working length" of the seal is critical to your seal application.  To identify  the working length, measure your mechanical seal end to end as it is pictured above, this is your seals "total length".  From this you must subtract 50% of the   uncompressed spring length. This is your mechanical seals working length.

For seal dimensions follow this link and look up the seal by shaft size and "Type" (A,B,C,D,E,F,K,N,Q,R,S,T or ,U)

For instructions on how to identify a used seal follow this link

To make sure your pump seals stationary seat fits, it's a good idea to provide the inside dimension of the bore it will be fitting into.  The outside dimension of your seals stationary seat is helpful but more difficult to obtain an accurate measurement. Most pump seal stationary seats have rubber cups or o-rings that must be compressed when they are installed.

Seat Types

Mechanical Seals: Material Codes

To decipher a mechanical seals materials code,  use the following chart

A sample material code could be:  B C F L F
 
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