Chesterton Style 329

Specification of Chesterton Style 329

Stern-Lon Marine Flax Packing Flexible & Formable

Gland Packing 329 Stern-Lon® is a square -braided webbing to provide ordinary bending, formable packaging. Long fiber-fiber base, roved the highest quality hemp. 329 is free graphite to avoid galvanic corrosion on the shaft.
During production, the first 329 was impregnated with concentrated PTFE dispersions to promote non-flow lubrication and to inhibit degradation. This is followed by a lubricating "break-in" plasticizing that ensures compressibility, flexibility, and good packaging-to-shaft contact. large size does not need to be hammered into place. Finally, to minimize friction friction, fine fluorocarbon powder is divided embedded into the packaging surface. Chesterton 329 produces little or no shaft or arm wear.