machinery lubrication March 2002

Over the years I’ve observed a trend in customers: On one magical day at the beginning of every summer, when the temperature first nears 88°F and the humidity reaches 70 percent or more, a number...

Synthetic lubricants can be cost-effective alternatives to traditional mineral oils in off-highway engine applications if the performance benefits outweigh the higher lubricant...

Surface mining is a very old practice in North America. For example, mining for copper at the surface of the Michigan Upper Peninsula appears to have started as early as 5000 B.C. The ore produced...

Four shots every 28 days. It couldn’t get any simpler than that, right? At least I thought so at first. Two years ago, when I was asked to manage our facility’s machinery lubrication...

Governments throughout the European community are taking the climate change and environmental concerns seriously. For the end-user, this results in more paperwork, additional costs of...

I was shocked at what I found when I cut open these filters. For eight years I worked for two companies: for a Caterpillar dealer as a field service mechanic, and for a highway contractor as...

A chain is a series of traveling journal bearings with a means to engage the teeth of a sprocket and transmit force and motion. Because each chain joint is a bearing, proper lubrication is...

Even the smallest hydraulic oil leak costs money. The cumulative effect of external leaks from hydraulic machines can cost industrial producers tens of thousands of nonbudgeted dollars...