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- Title
What are your biggest concerns as gear boxes trend toward smaller sizes and heavier loads?
- Abstract
The article focuses on several problems due to heavier loads and smaller gear boxes. Topics discussed include decrease service life of equipment, increase in oxidation of the gear oils, increase in operating temperature and decrease in lubricant life, decrease in cooling and tendency to decrease bearing surface areas, room to control foaming is reduced, lack of lubrication knowledge in customers and increase in contamination due to mixing of incompatible lubricants.
- Subjects
GEARBOXES; SERVICE life; OXIDATION; LUBRICATING oils; AUTOMOBILE engine cooling systems
- Publication
Tribology & Lubrication Technology, 2015, Vol 71, Issue 9, p66
- ISSN
1545-858X
- Publication type
Article