GACO seal. Help, please!

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I need to identify and order a couple of GACO seals for an obsolete Whale pump.

Can anyone give me a link to a GACO catalogue so I can find the stock number of the item I need, and also suggest a stockist who will accept a very small order?

[And no, Mr Gilmore t/a Boat Pumps, in Newtonards doesn't have them]
 
Gaco are only one manufacturer of these. Try googling for "oil seals" Or find a local bearing stockists and take the old seals in to find a match ... or just quote the number.You will need to ensure that the replacements have a stainless steel garter spring

BTWpeople dont like it when you play with the colour and size
 
Try Googling 'bearing suppliers'. Most of them will supply Gaco seals. So long as you know external diameter, internal diameter, thickness and spring material ( presumably stainless) you should be able to trace your seal on most sites.
 
George Angus from whom the firm took its name was born in 1821, the sixth of at least 8 children of William Angus, a currier and leather factor, and his wife, Ann Threlkeld. The firm, however, was reputedly founded by George's grandfather, Thomas Angus, who established a leather selling business in the Close, Newcastle in 1788. In 1810 his son, William diversified into leather currying. George Angus first entered the family business as an apprentice in 1836, and was in sole charge by 1855 when he appears in trades directories as a currier and gutta percha merchant. India rubber manufacture was added in 1843.
In 1855 the business was run from 36 Grey Street, Newcastle, but when this burned down in 1867 a new works was established at 44 Grainger Street. By 1876 the St John's Leather Works, between Newgate Street, Clayton Street and Westgate Road, had been established. In 1888 George Angus and Co became a limited company.
George Angus died 18 November 1890 leaving two of his four sons as joint managing directors (John Henry Angus and Colonel William Mathwin Angus). These two initiated the company's diversification into gear manufacture at a new factory in Walker, some time between 1915 and 1922.
Following the death of his father, William Mathwin Angus, in 1934, Edmund Graham Angus became chairman, and it was he who further extended the company's interests with the establishment of an oil seal division within the factory at Walker to manufacture seals for the lubrication systems of high speed machinery. From this time the firm's headquarters were at Angus House, 158 Westgate Road. The Walker Road factory quickly became known as the Angus Gear Works.
A new factory was opened at Wallsend in 1956 and by this date the firm was also well known for its power transmission and fire engineering. In fact, although the St John's Leather Works was still operating, the other aspects of this business dominated. In the mid 1960s the city centre works was closed and production moved to a new industrial rubber plant in Cramlington, Northumberland.
In 1968 the firm merged with Dunlop Ltd to form Dunlop Angus Industrial Group.

The site of their factory in Wallsend once the largest oil seal factory in Europe is now occupied by B&Q.

Identify your seal here

An ebay seals supplier of which there are many

An alternative online supplier with seal descriptions and dimensions.
 
Gaco Seals

If you want help identifying them why don't you post the reference numbers on the back face of the seals.

I'll check my old Gaco catalogues at work and see if I can cross reference them for you.
 
Thanks for the comprehensive replies.

I will retrieve the old seal from wherever I put it [a 'safe place' somewhere!] and try and look for a part number on it.
 
Scarron said:
Gaco Seals

If you want help identifying them why don't you post the reference numbers on the back face of the seals.

I'll check my old Gaco catalogues at work and see if I can cross reference them for you.
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Hello Scarron, can you please help me with identify this Gaco seals from 80 s? Seals part numbers are IN 33760, IN 33757, IN 33411, IND 46645. Seals are installed on David Brown gearboxes.
 
Apologies, some chump in the sales office has had a tidy up and thrown the old catalogues I was keeping in our technical library away..

If you can get them out without mangling them too badly your nearest bearing and seals distributor should be able to provide with alternative seals.
 
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