Expanded Seal Flexibility with U-Plus™ Brackets
02-19-2025
Viking Pump’s new generation of pumps (sizes H-QS in steel and stainless steel) offer a wide array of benefits that the previous alloy pumps could not, particularly in the area of sealing flexibility....
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John Hall
Pump Consultant
All You Need to Know About ProPort™ Casings
11-14-2024
Viking Pump’s new generation of internal gear pumps offer a wide array of benefits that the previous alloy pumps could not, particularly in the area of porting flexibility. These new pumps reduced the...
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John Hall
Pump Consultant
Introducing Viking Pump’s NEW Generation of Pumps
11-14-2024
As a masterclass in engineering design and manufacturing flexibility, Viking Pump has re-designed its heavy-duty alloy pumps, both steel and stainless steel, in the most ingenious ways. These new mode...
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John Hall
Pump Consultant
Pump Choices in Chocolate and Confectionery Processing: Lobe/CP Pumps vs. Internal Gear Pumps
09-02-2024
Compare Lobe/CP and Internal Gear Pumps for chocolate and confectionery processing. Learn which pump suits different applications based on hygiene, viscosity, and wear resistance.
John Hall
Pump Consultant
Reversing a Gear Pump
01-25-2024
With Viking pumps the answer is usually “yes,” but before you turn that “reverse” switch on your pump’s motor starter or variable frequency drive, there are a number of things to consider, which are d...
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John Hall
Pump Consultant
7 Essential Tools for Pump Repair
10-09-2023
Like any job, you need the proper tools to do it well – and the same is true for repairing or servicing positive displacement gear pumps. Below are helpful hand tools that Viking's pump experts recomm...
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Chad Wunderlich
Distributor Development Manager
Viscosity Through Thick and Thin
03-10-2022
Viscosity is a measure of a liquid’s resistance to flow. And you don’t need to work in a laboratory to observe this. Anyone who’s spent any time in the kitchen has observed a variety of liquids with a...
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Chad Wunderlich
Distributor Development Manager
7 Things You Want to Know about Flanged Ports, but are Too Afraid to Ask
01-05-2023
Flange standards used on Viking pumps have been in place for over a century so EVERYONE should be experts on this now…right? It turns out not so much. There are various standards and various design di...
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Chad Wunderlich
Distributor Development Manager
PUMP CAVITATION: THE SYMPTOMS, CAUSE, DIAGNOSIS, AND CURE
09-14-2022
Customers don’t ask me to listen to quiet pumps. This is symptom #1 of a cavitating pump. The pump is loud. Descriptors like “growly”, “rumbling”, or “gravelly” are used to describe the atypically lou...
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Chad Wunderlich
Distributor Development Manager
Low-Cost Insurance Policy: how a strainer will save you time and money
07-20-2021
It’s typically impossible to see inside pipes and tanks.
Industrial pipes are usually steel or stainless. Even the occasionally used PVC is typically opaque.
But on the day of this customer visit, t...
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Chad Wunderlich
Distributor Development Manager