Publications: Sealing Products

This bulletin is intended to serve as a guide for lip seal users, calling attention to hazards, and pointing out ways to avoid them. It covers the storage and handling of lip seals from the time they are received by the user, until they become part of an installation process.

The purpose of this document is to present a tabulation of characteristics for radial lip seals which, when monitored by the recommended methods, assure consistent product quality.

This publication describes systematic methods of Sealing System Leakage Analysis - 2023.

This bulletin specifies an industry recommendation of optimum shaft requirements for rotary lip seals - 2023.

This publication is a guide for the selection of radial lip seals. It is designed to highlight the elements of a radial lip sealing system and assist in the proper specification of the element parameters. It also includes proper radial lip seal installation techniques.

This publication describes methods of measuring Radial Seal Torque and Power Consumption

This bulletin is to establish standard test methods for evaluating the quality of bond between rubber molded products and non-rubber substrates.

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This publication discusses the results of a project undertaken to define dimensions directly related to manufacturing process variables that affect product uniformity and seal function.

The new harmonized material data sheet provides a standardized protocol that specifies the conditions under which a material has been fabricated and tested in laboratory settings. Suppliers who adopt the ARPM system will be required to provide the same test data on every material they introduce to market, thus helping to establish a comparative material foundation that does not exist today. OS-1-4 does not replace the OEM's individual specification demands but provides a rapid way to evaluate the basic suitability of materials

The purpose of this document is to create a common understanding of lip seal coating thickness, its measurement and bond strength to the underlying substrate.

The purpose of this document is to review various ASTM laboratory tests used by rubber chemists in the formulation of low temperature seal compounds, and their ability to predict the performance of a seal during cold temperature dynamic tests.

This publication presents the fundamental requirements of rubber microhardness measurement procedures necessary to obtain uniform results.

This document establishes generally accepted terminology, design criteria, tolerances, and inspection methods for close-wound garter springs.

This technical bulletin examines the referee method for correlating radial load devices.

This publication describes practices used for measuring radial force of standard radial lip type shaft seals.

This bulletin summarizes a series of seal life tests run by ARPM member companies that show the effects of selected test variables.

The purpose of this document is to establish standard engineering test procedures for evaluating the contaminant exclusion ability of radial shaft seals in various environments.

The Visual Variations Guide is an attempt by the member sealing products manufacturers of the ARPM to illustrate, with photographs and isometric drawings, visual variations by location, type, and severity. This Guide is not an attempt to classify visual variations as functional or non-functional; such classification should be done with the seal manufacturer and with reference to the intended application of the seal.

This guidance document is intended to provide an overview of four test methods that can be used in a laboratory setting to measure the state of cure of crosslinked rubber.

The purpose of this document is to present terminology common in the marketplace for radial lip type shaft seals and their application.

This guide presents referee methods of measurement that can be used to resolve differences in the results of seal measurements, which may arise between the user and supplier.

SP-912 is a standard that establishes a common recipe for EGC.