Sizing Selection

HOW TO SELECT 3) Finally, refer to the pressure-temperature

THE G-LOK® CONNECTOR rating charts, on pages 28 to 35, to
ensure that the selected G-LOK ®
1) Determine the following connector meets the design
information needed to correctly size pressure and temperature
the G-LOK® connector: requirements for the code to
which it is being specified.
• Maximum Service Pressure and
Temperature (Your Design
Conditions) The standard line of G-
• The engineering or industry LOK ® connectors and
code your project has products are available in
specified. (ASME VIII, B31.3, materials and sizes to fit
etc.) nearly any requirement.
But if your requirements,
• Pipe size and schedule or pipe size, material or
the I.D. and O.D. of the design conditions, are
weld end. not covered by one of
• Your piping material. our charts, please
contact Galperti
2) Refer to the tables in this Engineering. We have an
catalogue: engineering and design
staff ready to help you
• Locate your pipe size and solve your most demanding
schedule in the Butt weld hub needs.
table on pages 16 to 23, then
read across to the corresponding
hub size (third column). As an HOW TO ORDER
example, the 12” schedule 160 Pipe THE G-LOK®
requires a G-LOK® Hub size 12M102. CONNECTOR
Also note that this chart has weights and After following the selection procedures the
dimensions for this hub and for most popular hub information necessary for ordering G-LOK® connectors
sizes. is the quantity, the hub number and material, the seal
• The G-LOK® number 12M102 designates the correct number and seal material, and the clamp number and
clamp, bolting and seal ring sizes for this connection. clamp material.
The first number refers to the pipe and clamp size, in
our example the pipe size is 12” and the clamp would A G-LOK® assembly consists of the following:
be the 12M. More information on the clamp can be • Two G-LOK® Hubs
located in the Clamp table on page 26 to 27.
• One G-LOK® Clamp Set, with four studs and eight
• The final set of figures is the G-LOK® seal for this nuts (Spherical washer available on request)
connection (in our example this would be a 102). The
G-LOK® seal chart is located on page 24 to 25. • One G-LOK® Seal Ring

12M102 G-LOK®
CLAMP SET

12”
G-LOK®
HUB

SEALRING
SIZE 102
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