Regreasing motors – best practice?
I’ve seen several articles over the years about adding fresh greasing to electric motor bearings. I even have an old video showing how to do it. There are many theories, but very little actual science...
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Bearing Life and Lubrication
Bearing life for most industrial applications is typically based on a 10% chance of failure. It’s quite conservative, since the average bearing life is 5 times as long. You can buy electric motors with...
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Bearing Damage – in Transport?
I recently had a client conversation about bearings getting damaged in transport. This can happen to new bearings during shipping, or after the bearing is installed. There was some confusion about...
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Quite often it is the little things in life that rare up and bite us when least expected. We were working in a factory that makes large grinding machines. The price of the machine depends on the size...
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Consequences of Buying Cheap Products
On initial start-up of a new machine rubs may occur because of misaligned bearing housings, an unbalanced rotor, misalignment with the driver, a distorted base, and the list goes on. In any event, the...
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Bearing Cage Failures
There are two aspects of a bearing cage failure, one is that they are fortunately rare and second, when they do occur, the damage is such that it is difficult to determine that a cage failure caused...
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