Hydroelectric Applications Extend The Life Of Your Bearings

From Holtwood, PA in 1912 to today's modern automated plant, Kingsbury has been the first choice to provide bearings for the largest and heaviest vertical turbine-generator and pumped-storage hydroelectric plants in the world.   Kingsbury's Repair & Service Division has many years of experience and countless installations in Hydro power plants.

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Kingsbury Expert Services For Hydro

• Evaluation, repair, and rebabbitting of thrust and guide bearings for vertical and horizontal hydroelectric bearing applications
• Field service support including load alignment and re-scraping shoes
• Training for maintenance staff at your facility or at Kingsbury

Performance Upgrades & Retrofits

• High pressure lift systems and bearing modifications for improved maintenance, extended bearing life, and increased load-carrying capacity
• Load cell installation upgrades for improved performance monitoring, load-equalization, and extended life
• Retrofits of jack-screw and other non-equalizing thrust bearings with Kingsbury mechanical leveling-plate or hydraulic equalizing bearings
• Retrofits of spring-plate and other vertical bearing designs with Kingsbury standard VK or KBV designs

Jack-screw bearing upgraded with high-pressure lift modification

Before: OEM spring plate bearing being disassembled

After: Kingsbury standard VK bearing upgrade