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31st Jul 2018, 8:50 am | #21 | |
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Re: Oil for sintered bearings
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In approximate terms, the '5W' indicates that the viscocity increases by 5 under winter conditions; after all, an SAE30 oil is unlikely to become an SAE5 when it's cold. These days you can get, say 0W/30 oils, whose viscocity is stable over a wide temperature range. |
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31st Jul 2018, 9:07 am | #22 |
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Absolutely.
I am a member of a forum that is all about teletypes and teleprinters. They have all sorts of horror stories about using WD40 on such machines. Basically it washes all the gummy old grease into every mechanical nook and cranny, then evaporates. That renders the machine completely locked solid, and the only recovery is a complete strip down and part by part clean (a serious big job with many hundreds of small parts). They have all sorts of witches brews for lubrication - I'd have to really poke around to find them and are probably not directly relevant to sintered bearings. I might occasionally use WD40 to soak a seized bolt, but that is all. Craig |
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Re: Oil for sintered bearings
I recall being taughtback in the early 70s, that Sintered bearings were 'Lubed for Life', and did not/should not need re-oiling. IIRC, this was taught on a refresher course about servicing Blaupunkt In-Car Cassette Decks, but would apply to anything which used sintered bearings. Admittedly I don't suppose any manufacturer expected their equipment to last 30 or maybe even 40 years. That having been said, I haven't had to relubricate any sintered bearings -yet!!
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31st Jul 2018, 9:17 am | #24 |
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>> the '5W' indicates that the viscocity increases by 5 under winter conditions<<
Sorry but this is not correct. There is a lot of confusion over the numbers used to describe multi grade oils, but this single diagram explains it very clearly:- Cheers. |
31st Jul 2018, 9:42 am | #25 |
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Thanks for that Trigon, it is indeed very clear.
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31st Jul 2018, 9:43 am | #26 |
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Warning: do not use paraffin in an oil mix!!
My father used to do that and I suffered the consequences. The paraffin evaporates quite quickly and you are then left with a much thicker mixture. |
31st Jul 2018, 9:46 am | #27 |
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Can anyone clear that aspect up? |
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31st Jul 2018, 9:49 am | #29 |
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Originally, back in the 1930s if not earlier, the W suffix was used informally, being added to the SAE 10 and 20 grades where they had low temperature fluidities that made then especially suitable for winter cold start conditions. Hence originally W meant winter. It was formalized with the 1950 revision to the J300 standard, which added the SAE 5W, 10W and 20W grades. There have been multiple revisions since. (The classification system itself reaches back to 1911.) The grade numbers are essentially arbitrary, except that the higher the number, the higher the viscosity. The original list ran 10, 20, 30,……70. There have been many additions and some deletions since. To clear up a common misconception, W in the J300 context does not mean, and has never meant “weight”. And this classification system refers only to fluidity characteristics. It has nothing to do with composition, such as the presence of absence of detergent-dispersant additives, or performance characteristics, for which separate standards exist. Cheers, |
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31st Jul 2018, 10:14 am | #31 |
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Returning to the original question, the best first port of call is, if possible, to ascertain what type of oil the bearing makers used as “initial fill”, and what, if anything, did they recommend for relubrication. A reasonable “guess” as to what was used originally would be a relatively simple rust and oxidation inhibited industrial circulating (mineral) oil. Viscosity grade is more difficult to estimate, but ISO VG 46 might not be too far out.
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31st Jul 2018, 10:16 am | #32 |
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My cynical view about "lubricated for life" components is that their life is shorter than it would be if they were lubricated regularly. Certainly the "maintenance-free" universal joints and king pins of my Hillman Imp needed regular replacement. They had originally been fitted with grease nipples, no doubt deleted to save manufacturing costs.
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31st Jul 2018, 10:52 am | #33 |
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Hello,
This https://www.mcmaster.com/#catalog/115/1116 suggests that they used SAE30 oil. (It also mentions the stronger super oilite made from iron and copper.) Vegetable oils are in many ways superior to mineral oils but they oxidise very easily so have a short life. In the past castor oil was often used in racing car engines as it was superior to mineral oil and only used for one race. Penrite still make a castor oil based racing oil:- https://www.penriteoil.com.au/produc...-full-synethic Yours, Richard |
31st Jul 2018, 11:04 am | #34 |
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Thankyou for stressing the interaction between gear-oil and certain materials. Best avoided then. Perhaps this might be one difference between hypoid and spiral bevel oils- who knows.
I have half a pint of 'Filtrate' running in compound in the shed- containing Acheson's DAG colloidal graphite, apparently! i wonder what the heck THAT can now be used for.. I can only describe the small as nostalgic. I think it would be good for door locks still. I suspect that no amount of hyperbolic-oxy-action would get it out of a white tee-shirt. Fancy a challenge, Vanish!? Dave |
31st Jul 2018, 11:45 am | #35 |
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I took a small sintered bronze bearing to a machinist the other day to see whether he could machine up a replacement. He said that such sintered bearings were initially packed with a graphite lubricant.
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31st Jul 2018, 12:54 pm | #36 | |
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I used it to lubricate the clutches and pulleys in a posh Grundig AM/FM radio. It all worked fine for a couple of months, then things started to stiffen up. Cleaning its not a trivial task! I can only imagine the tears and heartache it would cause to a sintered bush... |
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31st Jul 2018, 1:47 pm | #37 |
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I don't think castor oil has ever been used to factory fill sintered bearings. Modern ones seem to use graphite or moly while I imagine they used sperm oil when first developed.
The tendency of castor oil to gum up was one of the main reasons it was superseded in household oil in the postwar years (the other main factor being cost). |
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31st Jul 2018, 4:28 pm | #40 |
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(I think the name 3 in 1 indicates 'lubricates, cleans, protects' although there could have been an additional meaning)
It also came in 3 versions (does it still?) The penetrating and easing one contains graphite, and is the bees knees for removing sticky label glue, and the cycle and mower version is thick grade for applications in which most of the middle grade would end up on the floor. Dave |