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In This Issue
| - High Viscosity Gear Oil Filtering
- The Value of Proactive Maintenance
- How Temperature Affects Viscosity
- Simplify Oil Analysis with Field Tests
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 | When filtering high viscosity oils, you must understand several key factors. By definition, a high viscosity oil has resistance to flow, and there are a number of ways to deal with this, including reducing the flow rate, increasing the filter's pore size and increasing the surface area of the filter. Watch this video to learn which of these three options offers the best solution as well as a few other alternatives you might consider. |
| The cost of proactive maintenance is much different than that of preventive, predictive and breakdown maintenance. This is because you don't actually have any kind of impending condition. Proactive maintenance is a vigilant activity of controlling things, as opposed to letting things fail on their own and then simply just changing out components or letting a breakdown occur. When proactive maintenance is performed correctly and effectively, every dollar spent on it should come back with friends attached. |
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Question: Compared to an oil with a viscosity index of 100, if an oil has a viscosity index of 0, how will its viscosity change with temperature?
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From "Daily One-Minute Lubrication Inspections and Field Tests":
These days oil analysis is not simply about a periodic sample pulled from a machine and sent to a laboratory. A lot of organizations today are empowering their maintenance staff and operators to do a certain amount of quick, onsite inspections and field tests. The concept of a frequent inspection, what is called a daily one-minute inspection, can far exceed the benefits of monthly or bimonthly oil sampling where very sophisticated laboratory testing is done. |
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