Kingsbury Hydro Bearing Services
Total rehabilitation solutions for hydro unit bearings and related components
Kingsbury Hydro Bearing Services
Kingsbury offers complete diagnostic services, such as failure analysis for symptoms like noise, high temperatures and wear detection. We also offer replacements or upgrades for non-Kingsbury brands of hydrodynamic bearings. Our experienced field service engineers can travel directly to your site to help with dismantling and evaluating larger bearings that are impractical to ship to our factory.
Kingsbury’s Repair & Service Division delivers to the hydro power industry a successful re‐start of the machinery on schedule with reliability through the next planned outage. Expert bearing solutions are assured using Kingsbury technical leadership in the following repair or upgrade focus areas:
Total Rehabilitation Solutions to Hydro Unit Bearing & Related Components
- Load Cells, HPL (High Pressure Lift) Skids
- Thrust Shoe Modifications
- Jack Screw Adjusting Bearings
- Self Equalizing Bearings
- VK & KBV Thrust Bearings
- Instrumentation such as RTD’s and Thermocouples
- Pivot Shoe Spring Bed/GE Spring Plate Thrust Bearings
- Engineering/Field Service
- Large Close Tolerance Machining: Thrust Runners, Thrust Blocks, Thrust Collars
- Horizontal Hydro Bearing Repairs & Upgrades
- Customer Training
- Guide Bearings/Turbine Guide Bearings
- Guide Shoes/Journal Shoes
Contact a Kingsbury Engineer
Contact us to discuss new installation, upgrade or bearing review for high speed/high load turbine bearings for gas and steam applications. Our Kingsbury team will arrange for a detailed review of your application, load conditions, oil-system history and expected service life and present a solution and outline expected performance improvements. Request a quote on service for your fluid film bearings.
