[Emc-users] Lubrication system

[Nicklas Karlsson]

Anyone who some experience with central lubrication system?

It is an old machine. There is a bowl filled with grease connected to a row of pneumatic valves so I guess the grease is supposed to enter this block. There is also plenty of tubes connected to blocks on the sliding surfaces and I could see there are grease on the sliding surfaces. It all seems to be driven by pneumatic and I have connected compressed air. One of the valves are marked lubrication and I have tried to switch this but nothing seems to happen.

Anyone who have an idea?


Regards Nicklas Karlsson

[Ed]

Post by Nicklas Karlsson
Anyone who some experience with central lubrication system?
It is an old machine. There is a bowl filled with grease connected to a row of pneumatic valves so I guess the grease is supposed to enter this block. There is also plenty of tubes connected to blocks on the sliding surfaces and I could see there are grease on the sliding surfaces. It all seems to be driven by pneumatic and I have connected compressed air. One of the valves are marked lubrication and I have tried to switch this but nothing seems to happen.
Anyone who have an idea?

I don't know this application but in all the cases I have seen the
grease is a light #1 NLGI grease for bank systems. The usual grease gun
grease is #2. #2 is used for bearings and farm machinery, #1 is used a
lot in reciprocating applications, like presses and such. DO NOT SUBSTITUTE.

Ed.

[Jon Elson]

Post by Nicklas Karlsson
Anyone who some experience with central lubrication system?
It is an old machine. There is a bowl filled with grease connected to a row of pneumatic valves so I guess the grease is supposed to enter this block. There is also plenty of tubes connected to blocks on the sliding surfaces and I could see there are grease on the sliding surfaces. It all seems to be driven by pneumatic and I have connected compressed air. One of the valves are marked lubrication and I have tried to switch this but nothing seems to happen.

Bijur central lube systems use way oil, not grease. Grease takes a lot
of pressure to send through thin tubes. Bijur and similar central lube
systems have metering orifices that get clogged when the system sits for
a long time. I have not had any luck cleaning them. Direct from Bijur,
they are surprisingly inexpensive. If this is truly designed for
grease, then I really don't know anything about it.

Jon

[andy pugh]

If this is truly designed for grease, then I really don't know anything
about it.

Central greasing systems are sometimes seen on lorry chassis.
http://www.herglube.com/html/content/products/application/products_10/2014/1222/81.html

[Todd Zuercher]

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Post by Nicklas Karlsson
Anyone who some experience with central lubrication system?
It is an old machine. There is a bowl filled with grease connected
to a row of pneumatic valves so I guess the grease is supposed to
enter this block. There is also plenty of tubes connected to
blocks on the sliding surfaces and I could see there are grease on
the sliding surfaces. It all seems to be driven by pneumatic and I
have connected compressed air. One of the valves are marked
lubrication and I have tried to switch this but nothing seems to
happen.
Anyone who have an idea?

I don't know this application but in all the cases I have seen the
grease is a light #1 NLGI grease for bank systems. The usual grease
gun
grease is #2. #2 is used for bearings and farm machinery, #1 is used
a
lot in reciprocating applications, like presses and such. DO NOT
SUBSTITUTE.
Ed.

A further problem if incompatible greases are used, they can harden and clog the lines when they mix. (Ask me how I know this.)