Machinery Lubrication May 2011

A Komatsu WA 600 engine was tested at the Sishen Mine in South Africa, and the expected life on all the main components (engine, transmission and final drives) was 15,000...

The year was 1960 - John F. Kennedy had just been elected president; Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” was making theater-goers squirm in their seats; Muhammad Ali, then known as Cassius Clay, was just...

Repeat pump failures are clear indications that the root causes of problems were not found. Or, in case the problem cause is known, someone must have decided to do nothing about it. Either way,...

The Augustus H. Gill Award was formed to recognize organizations that have exhibited excellence in the application of used oil analysis in machine and lubricant condition monitoring. This...

Five years ago, Dr. Tim Nadasdi, a senior chemist with ExxonMobil, did a survey of several hundred in-service samples and sent them to different labs using different technologies to measure the...

What does it do? In most slow, highly loaded, geared applications there exists a lubricating condition that is ultimately responsible for most failures due to adhesive wear. This condition is known...