Dear Network (!),
May we seek help from your collective wisdom?
At Forncett we are recommissioning a Worthinggton Simpson
vertical boiler feed pump. Having stood idle for many years,
there is serious corrosion of the piston rod in the area where
it passes through the gland at the pump end. The rod has the
steam piston at the top and the pump piston at bottom.
Has anyone any experience of, or contacts for, metal
spraying a shaft and re-machining to size?
The steel rod is 1 1/4 ins diameter and 40 ins long. The
corroded area is about 7 ins long.
With many thanks in anticipation,
Bill Starling.
