Turbopump Bearing Kits - anybody have experience?

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Turbopump Bearing Kits - anybody have experience?

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Turbovacuum and a few other sources sell replacement bearing kits and specialized tool kits for turbo pumps.

I'm curious whether anybody has had any success using these kits, and also whether your pump needed balancing once the bearings were replaced and if so how you did that.
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Re: Turbopump Bearing Kits - anybody have experience?

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ian
I have replaced bearings and transferred armatures from one pump to another
no failures yet --except for varian 550 units --just bad design
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Re: Turbopump Bearing Kits - anybody have experience?

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What about the smaller Varian pumps? Do you need special tools

Do you need to re-balance them?
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Re: Turbopump Bearing Kits - anybody have experience?

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I replaced one in a large 1000l/s pfeiffer, pretty easy. I found a company that made Steel/SiC bearings and selected one the right size. The only difference was the plastic keeper for the balls was different but I was able to transfer from the old to the new.

Alpine Bearing makes a lit of bearing kits for a fraction of the price the vacuum shops sell them for. You should not have to rebalance.

https://alpinebearing.com/bearing-categ ... urbo-pump/
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