Technical Knowledge
Mastering Industrial Lubricant Handling: A Comprehensive Guide to Optimize Performance and Protect Assets
Effective storage, transfer, identification, and protection protocols for industrial lubricants are crucial for maintaining their quality and performa...
5 Rust Prevention Tips for Your Metal Parts, Machines and Equipment
Did you know that there are four major types of rust? There is red, yellow, brown, and black rust. Each of them is detrimental to your equipment and p...
Global Mining: Slick Tricks for an Efficient Fix.
Both underground and opencast mining operations provide a host of reliability challenges due to the environment of the workspace and the demand the op...
Understanding Lubricant Physical Properties and Chemistry
Lubricants have several physical properties that serve their function and performance. Viscosity Specific gravity and density Pour point Film stre...
Fugitive Emissions: Why Do We Need to Control Them and How Do We Control Them?
Fugitive emissions or FEs are the unintended release of gases and vapors from pressurized systems into the environment. Carbon dioxide is the primary ...
What Are Fugitive Air Emissions?
The Centre for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) reports that US emissions have been dropping since their peak in 2007. Transportation, electric pow...
GLOBAL MINING REVIEW - CRUSHING IT - THE IMPORTANCE OF QUALITY LUBRICANTS FOR COMPRESSION CRUSHERS
Crushers are machines used to reduce the size of materials in the primary, secondary, and tertiary crushing stages in the size reduction process. The...
Global Mining Review: Gearing Up - The importance of open gear lubricants and how to optimise their performance.
Open gear lubricants are an essential component of virtually all mineral and metal mining and processing operations. They are used in major mobile equ...
Why Do Bolts and Nuts Come Loose?
Whether a simple nut and bolt connection, an HDD sub saver connection or oilfield casing connection, there are millions of critical threaded connectio...
What is a Threadlocker and when to use one?
A threadlocker is a hard-setting sealant and adhesive compound used to lock threaded connections. Between all industries, home and DIYers, there are m...
How does Mold-Pac work?
Deacon Mold-Pac is a high-performance damming, molding, and positioning putty designed for use across a very diverse range of industries. It remains f...
HOW TO PROPERLY ASSEMBLE NPT PIPES & FITTINGS
Assembly of NPT Piping NPT stands for National Pipe Taper — pipe and fittings have a tapered thread profile. The tapered thread seals use an interfe...
BE PREPARED: PROTECTING YOUR EQUIPMENT IN WINTER SEASON
A NECESSARY STEP TO LUBRICATION IN COLD WEATHER The lessons we acquire as we grow and as we learn often provide us with the knowledge we end up using...
A Primer on Grease Testing for Performance and Condition Monitoring
The tests that are performed for technical data sheets are different compared to what is tested for condition monitoring. This video explores the test...
Deformation Of Metal And The Effect On Open Gears
When we think of metal, it is difficult to consider that it is compressible and even more interesting is that it can recover after being compressed, b...
How To Make An Optimal Oil Analysis Step By Step
American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) sets the standards for most industrial oil tests. In addition, other standards are set by American ...
A Definitive Guide to Various Maintenance Strategies For Your Industry
According to the Rand Group, between 2012 and 2018, the U.S. spent about 57% of its transportation infrastructure budget on new construction projects....
Lubricant Failure Mechanisms
Machines requiring a lubricant film experience a wide range of failure opportunities. Typically, the most common is surface degradation due to a conta...
Best Practices for Oil Lubricating Your Industrial Equipment
The application of an oil can be broken down into a total loss application, a self-contained application, or a circulating application. The total loss...