What's new: the fantastic Caravel Puller-Fitter

Designed and built by Caravel, the new PULLER-FITTER for bearings is a fantastic solution to pull out a bearing from the shaft and to fit a new one in the same position.

It is a manually operated hydraulic machine which does not require any dangerous operation such as the removal of the shaft.
It is fast and efficient and a boon to the busy boatyard.
The shaft remains in situ, the bearing can be extracted and a new bearing fitted in minutes. What can take days completed in a fraction of the time without damage to housing or shaft.
Simple and practical to operate, no bearing can resist its compelling thrust.

Technical application
The equipment is designed to accept 2 basic size kits which cover bearing shell diameters up to 100 mm (outer diameter).

The kits are as follows:
T8 - for bearings with outer diameter not greater than 58 mm (shaft about 45 mm)
T13 - for bearings with outer diameter between 58 mm and 100 mm (shaft about 50-80 mm)
The above metric sizes are fully interchangeable with imperial sizes.

Optional size kits
One basic kit is standard - please advise which kit is required for your operation. With each kit will be supplied 2 half bearings guides and 2 guide blocks.

Here below some short clips can help you to understand how easy, fast and safe the CARAVEL PULLER-FITTER is:

1) How to use the half-bearing guides to push the bearing out:

2) Pushing the bearing out:

3) The bearing out of the gallow:

4) How to use the half-bearing guides to push the bearing in:

5) Pushing the bearing in:

The CARAVEL PULLER-FITTER can also be used by scuba divers underwater.

YOU CAN SEE THE CARAVEL PULLER FITTER BY OUR STAND AT THE GENOVA BOAT SHOW EXHIBITION. YOU CAN GET THERE SOME TECHNICAL PAPERS ABOUT THIS FANTASTIC MACHINE.