Thordon Bearings

Henleys Propellers and Marine carries high class Thordon Bearings that are Lloyds Register and DNV approved. The marine range include Thordon XL, SXL,  and Compac Bearings.

These bearings perform well in applications where they are exposed to or submerged in water, or even in dry conditions.

Thordon bearing being the most common bearing that Henleys Propellers supply is further described by following this link.

The new Thordon Thorplas Thermoplastic Bearings has been introduced in the market recently. This thermoplastic bearing is grease and oil-free engineered (non-elastomer) thermoplastic bearing.

Thordon Bearings Inc., a world leader in grease and oil-free bearing solutions has announced the introduction of Thor-Coat, a new proprietary shaft coating specially formulated to address the recognized risk of traditional coating failures on water lubricated propeller shafts.

Henleys Propellers was recently awarded by Thordon with the Tom Breiwick Award for the development of Kiwi Seal. Below is the text of the newsletter from Thordon.

TOM BREIWICK AWARD Winner -  Henley’s Propellers (New Zealand)

Congratulations to Henley’s Propellers, the latest winner of the Tom Breiwick Award for their development of the KIWI Shaft Seal. The Tom Breiwick award is presented annually to the Thordon Distributor best demonstrating outstanding ability in the area of providing innovative and technically superior solutions incorporating Thordon products to his customers. The award will be presented at the 2008 Global Distributor Conference in Niagara Falls, Canada.

After 6 years of selling lip seals and 9 years selling face seals, the experience gained and the issues learned from their customers led to Henley’s staff developing a safe and reliable shaft sealing solution that solves their customer’s problems. The introduction of the “KIWI” Shaft Seal which uses a Thordon XL bearing along with their “EASIFLOW” Stern tube system that also included a number of either Thordon COMPAC or XL bearings provided a complete one design stern tube / shaft seal package for vessel’s constructed in either Steel, Aluminum, GRP or Timber. The ‘one type fits all’ system offered safety, NO maintenance, ease of installation, a lightweight nose cone ensuring minimum shaft wear and a compact length that can be adjusted. The design consists of a single piece stainless steel housing with a single lip seal configuration. Henley's offer these seals for 12 different shaft sizes ranging from 25.4mm to 101.6mm (1” to 4”) and offer a 2 year or 1000 hour warranty.   This innovative solution incorporating Thordon XL bearings certainly offers a technically superior product keeping the vessel safe and dry while eliminating maintenance issues. A copy of their promotional brochure is here.

Thank you to all Distributors who submitted applications. 

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