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How to Keep an Oil Testing Program on Track

How to Keep an Oil Testing Program on Track
In order to optimize the benefits of a lubrication monitoring program, it’s wise to watch out for anything with the potential to derail it. Following are a few pointers: Communication is important. Everyone  involved needs to understand that the pace of implementing a new program will be slow at first, that workloads must be balanced…
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How to Select Equipment for Oil Testing

How to Select Equipment for Oil Testing
Choosing the equipment to monitor boils down to a few areas that include: criticality; expense and safety; reliability; and environment and efficiency. CRITICALITY Criticality is often the biggest driver for selecting equipment to sample. Following are criticality considerations—ranked from the most to least imperative. Critical to overall operation and/or very high costs without redundancyCritical to…
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Industrial Oil Analysis Lab Offers Livestream Discussion, Q and A

Industrial Oil Analysis Lab Offers Livestream Discussion, Q and A
Interested in expanding your lubrication program maintenance skills? Need answers to questions that come up frequently in your workplace in areas such as test methods, test limits, effects of contamination, remediation, etc?  Need to connect with industry experts and colleagues across the U.S.?  Join us for a LinkedIn Live event! Benefits include: A great way…
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Oil Testing: Expert Advice Offered by TestOil in 2 TLT Articles

Oil Testing: Expert Advice Offered by TestOil in 2 TLT Articles
TestOil, the industry leader in lubricant testing, is featured in two Tribology and Lubrication Technology (TLT) Magazine articles—one, “Avoiding Lubricant Contamination”, was  published in the Sept. 2021 issue and the other, “Controlling Lubricant Contamination”, will be published in the Nov. 2021 issue.                  TLT Magazine is the primary publication of the Society of Tribologists and…
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What is MPC Oil Testing and What Does it Indicate?

What is MPC Oil Testing and What Does it Indicate?
What is MPC Oil Testing and What Does it Indicate? The Membrane Patch Colorimetry (MPC) test measures the color bodies of insoluble contaminants in lubricants. It uses solvent extraction to capture varnish and oxide insolubles from a fluid sample on a micron filter membrane (patch).  Varnish tends to color the patch and by measuring the…
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Prevent Sludge and Varnish with Proper Oil Flushes and Changes

Prevent Sludge and Varnish with Proper Oil Flushes and Changes
Prevent Sludge and Varnish with proper Oil Flushes and Changes Waiting too long for an oil flush and change out can lead to operational issues that arise from the formation of sludge and/or varnish in the system.  These issues include clogging filters, sticking valves (or other close-tolerance moving parts), coated heat exchangers which cause reduced…
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