The Graco 163011 Packing Vee delivers superior sealing efficiency in demanding pump assemblies. This precision-engineered component optimizes performance for your airless sprayer applications, ensuring clean, consistent operation under high-pressure filtration conditions. It excels in environments using professional coatings, providing uniform results and extended pump life. Crafted from high-strength elastomeric materials, this packing vee withstands continuous cycling and abrasive coatings, making it an essential part of any maintenance toolkit.
Lightweight yet robust, the 163011 Packing Vee weighs just 0.005 lbs and installs quickly during routine servicing. Its compact profile simplifies replacement, reduces machine downtime, and ensures long-term sealing reliability. Ideal for commercial and industrial spray applications, this component supports professional workflows with consistent performance and durability. Backed by Graco engineering, it enhances operational consistency.
$23.25The Graco 163011 Packing Vee is an advanced sealing component engineered for fluid handling systems where consistent flow regulation and reduced friction are paramount. This precision-engineered Vee packing ring is specifically designed to enhance volumetric efficiency and dynamic response in reciprocating pumps and diaphragm-driven dispensers. When integrated into airless sprayer assemblies, the optimized cross-sectional geometry of this seal element reduces volumetric losses and mitigates backflow under high differential pressures. The tailored lubricant channels within the vee design maintain optimal clearance between mating surfaces, contributing to improved pump efficiency across diverse operating cycles. By optimizing the sealing geometry, this Vee packing element significantly reduces cavitation phenomena and fluid pulsation amplitudes during rapid reverse strokes, allowing continuous operation within a -40°C to 120°C temperature window.
Manufactured from an advanced proprietary blend of elastomer matrix and low-wear PTFE fibers, the Graco 163011 Packing Vee delivers exceptional resistance to chemical attack encountered in abrasive coatings and solvent-based media. The elastomer matrix is formulated to maintain a consistent Shore A hardness of 75 ±5, balancing rigidity and conformability across the full operating temperature range. Proprietary crosslink density control prevents creep and ensures dimensional stability under sustained hydraulic load. Chemical resistance profiles include exposure to chlorinated solvents, epoxy precursors, and aliphatic isocyanates with less than 2% volumetric swell after 24 hours immersion. Surface finishing and professional coatings applied to the wear faces minimize adhesion of particulates, ensuring consistent sliding performance in both manual and automated dispensing equipment.
From a performance metrics standpoint, the Vee seal excels under pressures exceeding 3,000 psi, with leak rates maintained below 0.02 ml/min in controlled bench tests. Its geometry facilitates integrated high-pressure filtration of micro-contaminants by generating micro-gaps that direct particulates into external screens, protecting downstream components. Wear testing demonstrates seal longevity in excess of 100 million cycles at 60 strokes per minute, outperforming standard O-ring and flat packing solutions by up to 40% in comparative life-cycle studies. Moreover, the Vee profile contributes to a reduction in frictional torque by up to 15%, translating to lower energy consumption per stroke. Thermal cycling between -40 °C and 200 °C has negligible impact on preload retention and leak performance.
In application, the Graco 163011 Packing Vee integrates seamlessly into standard Graco fluid sections, including piston and diaphragm modules. Installation requires minimal tooling: the ring simply slides over the piston rod and seats into the gland bore, where spring-loaded compression maintains consistent preload throughout the operational temperature range. It is fully compatible with Graco’s PuraSys, ProMix, and Fusion airless spray platforms as well as third-party pump modules meeting NFPA and ATEX ratings. Real-time system diagnostics leveraging pressure transducers can be calibrated to detect seal degradation onset, enabling predictive maintenance strategies and minimizing unscheduled downtime.
The refined cross-sectional profile of this Vee packing element is the culmination of finite element analysis and computational fluid dynamics modeling, which optimized stress distribution and lubricant retention channels. Future design iterations leverage additive manufacturing to prototype composite packing rings incorporating embedded sensors for real-time wear monitoring. The material formulation and manufacturing processes comply with RoHS directives, and an FDA-compliant variant is available for food and pharmaceutical-grade fluid transfer. By enabling rapid prototyping and customizable seal geometries, engineers can tailor preload characteristics and thermal expansion profiles to match specialized system requirements, broadening application scope to include precision metering pumps in medical infusion and chemical dosing equipment.
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