Not all the work we do involves manufacturing piston rings from modern base materials and applying chrome ceramic coatings to them, far from it…
We regularly work with the Austrian Society for Railway History (ÖGEG), and supplied them with a set of rings earlier this year for one of their locomotives which is nearly 80 years old. Here is what they told us about this project.
“Our locomotive has been built in 1944 by company Franco-Belge in occupied France as a part of the German war effort. These locomotives were built to a war standardization program intended to build standardized locomotive types with minimized use of materials and work. Accordingly these locomotives were kept very simple and also were designed to work on temporary light railway tracks and were built for different gauges from 600 mm to even 1435 mm.
At the end of WWII, our locomotive with some others of this type found itself in Austria, with members of its class spread all over Europe and examples now preserved in Austria, France and even the UK.
The Austrian Federal Railways modified four locomotives of this type to tender locomotives and renamed these locomotives to series from 699.0 to 699.1. During its working life our locomotive 699.103 served on the now closed Carinthian narrow gauge railway line Völkermarkt-Kühnsdorf to Eisenkappel and after closure of this line was transferred to the Upper Austrian Steyr Velley line, where it was, due to its low speed but high tractive effort mainly used for freight line traffic.
After this narrow gauge line was also closed in 1982 after a land slide, the locomotive was waiting for an uncertain future in the loco shed in Gartsen. In 1984 the Austrian Society for Railway History (ÖGEG) managed to take over a 17 km long part of the Steyr Valley Line from Steyr to Grünburg and to purchase 3 of the locomotives used in the final years of pre-preservation operation of the line.
In 1985 preservation service was established and locomotive 699.103 was recommissioned for operation on the Steyr Valley Railway line. After it’s second general overhaul in preservation era completed in 2021 locomotive 699.103 is now ready to pull happy guests on special trains again.
We are very happy with the support given to us by QIN on this project.”
More information can be found on their website: www.oegeg.at and they can also be followed on FaceBook.
Marine engine piston rings, locomotive piston rings, industrial piston rings, steam turbine sealing rings, power plant engine piston rings: we cover all these applications here at QIN across a bore range which extends from 160mm up to 600mm.
QIN’s support is always just a phone call or an email away.
There are still 100s and 100s of SKL engines out there, and QIN continues to happily support those who continue to work with them.
Here’s one set from a current order heading into Eastern Europe for a customer who is working with the 6VDS48/42…
At QIN, we believe in supporting our customers and in turn their end-users throughout the lifetimes of all the engines which we are able to support them with. It is a very simple philosophy, and one which places our customers at the heart of all that we do.
So, whereas we know that others are looking to discontinue support for older engines from the likes of SKL and impose Last Time Buys on those who have bought from them previously, we will continue to support those who already come to QIN for rings for these engines and to welcome others still working with these engines who find their way to us now.
Within the Industriale files we also hold information on very many older rings from other engine builders who have long since stopped building engines. And where we do not have existing designs, we are always able to reverse-engineer compression rings or scraper rings for engines old and new from drawings or samples.
Whilst a large part of the work we do involves the supply of large-bore piston rings, be they modern compression rings with chrome ceramic coatings or energised oil scraper rings for marine and power applications, a good proportion of our work involves the supply of other types of rings for other applications – such as steam turbine sealing rings
Marine engine piston rings, locomotive piston rings, industrial piston rings, steam turbine sealing rings, power plant engine piston rings: we cover all these applications here at QIN across a bore range which extends from 160mm up to 600mm.
QIN’s support is always just a phone call or an email away.
OEM names and models are listed purely as references for QIN products which are designed to be compatible with those engines. Please note that we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the original equipment manufacturer.
If you are involved with the repair and maintenance of steam turbines, especially those from the leading manufacturer Westinghouse, then you will probably be interested to know that QIN have a long history of manufacturing the alloy sealing rings which are designed to withstand the extremely high temperatures generated within this application.
Since our days as Industriale, most months find us sending out QIN sealing rings compatible with Westinghouse steam turbines to a worldwide customer base – and we know that there will be a much larger international audience for them. So we have created a brand new technical data sheet to tell the rest of you more about them.
The list of steam turbines within that data sheet for which we have compatible sealing ring designs is not exhaustive, it is just a summary of our most-requested and most-supplied steam turbine sealing rings. Within the Industriale files we hold information on very many more turbines, as well as other sealing ring applications. And where we do not have existing designs we are always able to reverse-engineer products from samples.
If you’ve read this far, then you probably have an interest in sealing rings for Westinghouse (and other) steam turbines. So why not contact us at websales@q-in.eu to request that data sheet and find out more?
Whilst a large part of the work we do involves the supply of large-bore piston rings, be they modern compression rings with chrome ceramic coatings or energised oil scraper rings for marine and power applications, a good proportion of our work involves the supply of other types of rings for other applications – such as these steam turbine sealing rings
Marine engine piston rings, locomotive piston rings, industrial piston rings, steam turbine sealing rings, power plant engine piston rings: we cover all these applications here at QIN across a bore range which extends from 160mm up to 600mm.
QIN’s support is always just a phone call or an email away.
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OEM names and models are listed purely as references for QIN products which are designed to be compatible with those engines and turbines. Please note that we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the original equipment manufacturer.
It means, very simply, that we have been accepted to supply our large bore piston rings directly to some of the world’s leading builders of diesel and gas engines.
This isn’t something that happens overnight. When OEMs come knocking at our door then it is normally the start of a process which will take lots of behind the scenes work – as with a recent 3-day virtual audit from a household name OEM customer which we passed with flying colours a full 16 percentage points above the bar set for acceptance onto their vendor programme.
Over the course of further months, and sometimes years, sample piston rings from QIN are rigorously tested. Sometimes this will be in the form of accelerated fatigue testing in a lab against a series of defined protocols. Sometimes our piston rings will be run on a test engine at the OEM’s facility for 1000s of hours and the level of wear closely analysed along the way. Sometimes they will be reliability-tested for further months and years out in the field, on vessels as they navigate the planet’s oceans or locomotives as they cross continents. Sometimes it can be all of the above. And that’s all just fine with us – we’ve been in this game since 1956, and are here for the long-haul.
What does that all add up to for those who choose to fit QIN piston rings to their engines? Peace of mind.
Marine engine piston rings, locomotive piston rings, industrial piston rings, power plant engine piston rings: we cover all these applications here at QIN across a bore range which extends from 160mm up to 600mm.
Why not contact us at websales@q-in.eu to find out more about the technical and commercial benefits working with QIN can bring to your large-bore engine operations?
…what every piston ring manufacturer wishes for at Christmas.
What’s under your office Christmas tree this year?
Under the QIN tree are some FAI rings about to head out to a new international OEM customer, with whom we look forward to doing a lot more work in 2021.
And yes, we know it’s a bit niche…!
We take the opportunity to wish a Merry Christmas to all our contacts and customers who celebrate it. Have a good, restful & peaceful break, and we look forward to working with you again in what will hopefully very soon become a much more normal New Year…
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