I have a new position in my company (steel mill) where I am now the lubrication coordinator for the company. My role is a technical one, I will be training,advising and updating the lubrication is captured/done. One of my first needs is to get the right tools in the right hands. I am wondering if anyone knows of a... calculator type thing, Where you can drop the numbers in the fields and find out how much grease is needed and the frequency.

Hi Rich, send me your email to deanm@autolube.ca and I can send you all kinds of stuff. I can also direct you to products that have been designed specifcally for the steel industry and have been used by many of the big guys with great success.

Thanks
Dean.

Hi R1ch

Congats' on the new Lubrication Coordinator position well done,


as Dean states there are numerous areas you can google, talk with folk like Dean and get the info of application,
It's after application that will show if the rate and amount of grease being applied are correct,
We monitor the used grease being extruded from the bearing by microscope patch and regulate the flow of grease until the metal wear debris reduces to an acceptable level and often the grease will be heat damaged but that where we are getting the maximum value from the grease being applied.
Once the grease changes colour to a darker shade in the application the particle count increases, dark black used grease could be an ISO 4407 22/18 or higher and we would not tolerate an ISO figure that high in a gearbox and because grease applications are mostly rolling element bearings these should be an ISO 16/13 or better,
also when sampling grease keep in mind it is not homogeneous are lubricating oils and if possible we would normally stop the application and using the vacuum gun hose and sample bottle slip the hose between the rollers and sample the grease from there, if we process the sample here we only need and inch or 2-3 cm of grease up the hose, cut the loaded section of hose and pop in the clean bottle and we would process a patch of that which would show the amount of heat damage occurring as well as any metallic wear debris.
Ferrograms also work although the heat damage is not as easy the see in the ferrogram

Regards

Rob S

Rob, I would be very interested in finding out more from you. Do you have a website, or can you send me something?

deanm@autolube.ca

Thanks

Dean.

Hey there,

SKF have some really useful tools for this type of thing. Have a look at their website and look under calculators.

http://www.skf.com/

Regards,

Rodney Fitzpatrick

Thanks for your reply, Ron, much appreciated and was helpful. I will keep in mind your suggestions. Agian"THANKS"

Hey Dean
any help would be much appreciated:
richard.massie@arcelormittal.com


Rich

quote:

Originally posted by Dean Maier:
Rob, I would be very interested in finding out more from you. Do you have a website, or can you send me something?

deanm@autolube.ca

Thanks

Dean.

Hey Rodney
I checked the SKF site before and did see the calculator,BUT, did note really take a close look. Your suggestion made me take a closer look, thanks looks like it is kind of "right up my alley"
Thanks Rodney..... Much apppreciated!

quote:

Originally posted by Rodney Fitzpatrick:
Hey there,

SKF have some really useful tools for this type of thing. Have a look at their website and look under calculators.

http://www.skf.com/

Regards,

Rodney Fitzpatrick