
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

How An Internal Gear Pump Works
01-09-2024
Explore how internal gear pumps work, their unique “gear within a gear” design, and key advantages like efficiency and versatility. Ideal for professionals in fluid handling industries.
John Hall
Pump Consultant

Circumferential Piston Pumps Are NOT Lobe Pumps
11-09-2023
Viking Pump invented the internal gear pump in the early 20th century; but did you know that we carry various other pump technologies? Most of them are easily identifiable based on their shape. But on...
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Chad Wunderlich
Distributor Development Manager

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

5 Reasons to NOT Settle for Imitators
06-30-2023
Having a great product, with a great reputation, and being a technology inventor like Viking Pump®, positions you as a market leader with high visibility. As such, other internal gear pump manufacture...
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Chad Wunderlich
Distributor Development Manager

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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Robyn Watson
Sr. Marketing Coordinator

Retrieving Freedom Receives Donation from Viking Pump
03-02-2023
The Viking Pump ROOTS committee awarded Retrieving Freedom a $5,000 donation to support their local efforts to provide trained service dogs for individuals with disabilities in our community.
Robyn Watson
Sr. Marketing Coordinator

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