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Readers Challenge    November 19, 2003

Oil Analysis Without Particle Counting?

Dave Isenberg, Lubricator, Luke Mill

Lab Manager?, sounds more like an accountant who has never seen the cost of equipment and downtime. Particle counting is as important, if not more; as any other test to prevent failure of equipment.

Prevention cannot be over-emphasized. Prevention is much cheaper than failure, even if it means replacement on a planned outage. Particle count can predict failure or may advise oil change- out or purification.

I would reconsider discontinuing or at least set-up particle counting on a reduced schedule, never eliminate it. An ounce of prevention is worth a ton of cursing, or should I say cure.

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