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Oil Analysis Without Particle Counting?
Jason Curtis, Cold Mill Maintenance, Nucor Steel-Berkeley
I would continue to do particle counting on the equipment, especially
the critical and high speed equipment. There are too many ways
for contamination to be introduced in to an oil system to stop
monitoring.
They said less than 1 percent were reportable, preventing a catastrophic
failure of one piece of critical equipment could easily pay for
years of oil particle counting after repair costs and the cost(s)
of downtime are taken into account. The luxury of an on site lab
makes this way to easy to do to stop benefiting from it.
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