Master The Art Of Lubrication Equipment With These 10 Tips

Aircraft maintenance lubrication equipment can be used as pumping equipment to use controlled or metered amounts of lubricant. Applications include compressed air lines, dies, chains, cables, bearings, gears, pumps, spindles and other rotating or moving machine components. Important parameters to consider when specifying such equipment are capacity, lubrication flow rate, operating pressure, and maximum operating temperature. The flow rate could be the rate at which the lubrication is dispensed. Operating pressure identifies the most allowable pressure that the lubricator can be operated if pneumatically or hydraulically-operated lubricators. Gravity-fed lubricators operate at atmospheric pressure. Maximum operating temperature could be the full-required selection of ambient operating temperature.

Media choices include dry lubricant, grease, oil, and air and oil. Operation or actuation mechanisms include electric, electrochemical, gravity, hydraulic, manual, mechanical, and pneumatic. Constant level equipment was created to keep a consistent amount of lubrication fluid in a bearing housing or gearbox. Full flow lubrication equipment dispenses un-metered liquid lubricant. However, closed system equipment could be the future.

Aircraft maintenance lubrication equipment and the environment.

Macnaught greasing products, for instance, are greasing products made out of full awareness of efficiency practices, waste minimisation, pollution prevention, legal requirements and environmental objectives.

Used lubricants may contain materials that are damaging to the environment. Lubricant conservation and used oil reclamation, reprocessing, and disposal, the concepts of the environmental compatibility biodegradability and toxicity of the lubricants are the very best tools to restrain the ever-increasing use of lubricants. Lubricants with extended useful life are increasingly being developed and this also translates into cost savings.