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Exploring Viking Pump's Foundry: A Leader in Manufacturing Gear Pumps
04-14-2025
Welcome to the Viking Pump foundry in Cedar Falls, Iowa, where we’ve been at the forefront of manufacturing gear pumps for decades. Our foundry is a cornerstone of our vertical integration capabilitie...
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NPSH Visualized
02-11-2025
If you’ve ever fallen asleep reading pump texts about NPSH, you’re not alone. But here’s an easy-to-understand, graphical approach to ensuring your calculations.
U.S. EPA Bans Natural Gas-Driven Pumps
02-23-2024
A new EPA rule, published December 2, 2023, covering new and existing oil and gas operations, requires the use of zero-emissions pumps instead of natural gas-driven pumps, with very few exceptions. It...
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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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Viking Pump Energy Commits to Planting 10,000 Trees in 2023
04-06-2023
The Viking Pump® Energy Segment has partnered with global non-profit One Tree Planted with a goal of planting 10,000 trees annually. Every tree planted makes a positive impact for nature, wildlife, an...
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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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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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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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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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Current and Flow: An electrical engineer’s guide to the concepts of fluid systems
02-17-2021
Unlike most of my colleagues I didn’t start out with a mechanical background. While they were studying kinetics and machine design, I was studying digital electronics and industrial power. When I st...
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