Varnish ad in Power Magazine

Hi Ken

We have recently applied their Hydraulic Oil to 4 X 2000 Ton Injection molders, the previous lube varnished due to fine hard particle ingress,
The Conoco Fluid was sold to clean up the residual damaged lubricant in the system, We'll resample next month and I'll pop a note up of how the fluid is handling the new application,
The fluid has an additive that resuspends the damaged lubricant, the system has the Knife Edge Filtration (Roll Filter) type polishing filter attached and the filters were full of damaged lubricant with the old fluid
Regards


Rob S

www.rttech.com.au

Varnish seems to have as much to do with maintenance practices as the fluid in use. I put anyone who guarantees varnish-free performance in the same category with those who hawk miracle weight loss potions that allow you to sit ont he couch and eat ice cream all day while the pounds melt away.
Varnish is typically an oxidation byproduct. Operators with varnish problems would do well to consider switching suppliers LAST, after exhausting every option to reduce the rate of oxidation; increase flow through hot spots, reduce oxidation-promoting contamination, yada, yada, yada...
Big surprise - changing lube suppliers is not going to cool down the center bearing on a GE Frame 7 or fix the leak in your oil cooler.

In a perfect world if a customer bought a quality turbine oil and then installed an electrostatic oil cleaner (preferably an OILKLEEN system) and then implemented a quarterly varnish prevention oil analysis program then "varnish-free" and long oil life could be a reality.

However, in the world I seem to live in the oil is almost completely shot and no "real" varnish specific condition monitoring program in place, and then they call OILKLEEN (or any of my competitors) for some magic black box solution.

"varnish-free" or even "contamination free" is like fighting bad health, don't wait until its too late to begin a prevention program. If you start with a quality lubricant and use an electrostatic or BCA filtration system on the new oil, and implement a oil analysis program specific for varnish and anti-oxidation additive monitoring then you will have a clean system. All three things together will allow you to not worry about lubricants and concentrate on production and that is the ultimate goal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_FkV_SWETU

Ah yes, that perfect world; I sincerely plan to visit it someday...

We'd also all be happier if we lived healthy lifestyles to avoid illness rather than get sick & go to the doctor. Welcome to the world of humans. As a boy, I heard the Dragon Lady's mantra repeated endlessly "The road to Hell is paved with your good intentions!" Yeah, we always mean to stay after those little details, but somehow they keep slipping throught the cracks.

So, after they trash the oil, I imagine it's your crappy machine that's unable to clean up my crappy oil, right?

It'd be a lovely bit of business if it weren't for those pesky customers.

Hi Ken


Resampled the 4 machines with the new Conoco Hydraulic Fluid, they are running in a normal wear mode with a light amount of damaged lubricant debris, ISO 16/13-ISO 17/13, the 4 samples have differing colours with the most contaminated machine the darkest which could indicate the new Conoco Hydraulic fluid is uplifting the residual damaged lubricant and cleaning the system,
Image attached
These systems have paper roll type polishing filters installed and we'll check what these filters are removing next sample date.
Regards


Rob S