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Oil Analysis Without Particle Counting?
Robert Ropes, Test Engineer, Naval Air Warfare
Center
Test results are like mutual funds: past performance is no guarentee
of future returns. Low particle counts in past analysis indicates
good maintenence and well designed equipment.
As bearings wear, contamination enters the systems, fluids overheat,
ect. particle counts will increase, raising the flag to indicate
that corrective action is necessary.
Eliminating particle counts from the analysis increases the probability
of premature and catastrophic failures. Either type of failure
would cost substatially more that the analysis in terms of equipment
costs and lost productivity.
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