Talk:End face mechanical seal

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This article needs to be renamed to avoid confustion with Seal (mechanical).

Seal (rotating face)? Mechanical seal (rotating)? --Duk 22:39, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Hi, Good point. I was not aware of the Seal (mechanical) article until you pointed it out. I see that that article covers things that are not what we are calling "Mechanical Seals" here.

In the industries that use these seals they are variously called: Face seals, Rotary Face Seals, Rotary Seals, Bellows Seals, Spring Seals, Cartridge Seals, Gearbox Seals, Hard Face Seals, Gas Seals, Pusher Seals, Non-Pusher Seals, Split Seal, Type 1 Seals, Type 21 Seals, Balanced Seals, Non-Balanced seals, and a whole lot more that I can't think of at the moment.

Rotating Face Mechanical Seal is about as generic a term as you can get. I would have no objection to renaming the article to something like that and perhaps using a dis-ambiguity page to distinguish it from the Seal (mechanical) article.--gargoyle888 01:15, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

OK, done --Duk 05:51, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Actually, "Rotating face mechanical seal" is not a particularly good title for this article. The more complete and descriptive terminology is "end face mechanical seal". "End face mechanical seal" is likely to be used in patents and scientific publications although "mechanical face seal" is also often used. The Fluid Sealing Association uses "end face mechanical seal" as the preferred terminology in their glossary. For now, I've not attempted to change the title of this article (probably can't) but have added wording in the first paragraph as though the title were "End Face Mechanical Seals". Gordon 17:35, 9 November 2006 (UTC)Gordon Buck, Nov 9, 2006

no objections here. --Duk 18:50, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Go for it. After all, Wikipedia encourages you to WP:BB--gargoyle888 12:32, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Changed title to "End face mechanical seal" as discussed. Gordon 18:43, 2 January 2007 (UTC)