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...
View ArticleBearing 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...
View ArticleBearing 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...
View ArticleMachines -Parts
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...
View ArticleConsequences 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...
View ArticleBearing 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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