Features

In more than half of all cases, inadequate lubrication is the cause of unplanned machine downtime. The life of machine elements undergoing swivel, rotary or linear motion can be significantly extended by the use of greases appropriate to the different operating and environmental conditions as well as the definition of and adherence to lubrication intervals and quantities.

Services

Services relating to lubrication include:

• the selection of lubricants and lubrication systems
• the preparation of lubrication and maintenance plans
• lubrication point management
• consultancy on lubricants
• lubricant investigations and tests.

Advantages

The Schaeffler lubrication service helps to:

• prevent failures involving components undergoing swivel, rotary or linear motion
• achieve increases in productivity
• reduce lubrication costs.

Lubricants

An extensive selection of high quality Arcanol rolling bearing greases is available. In case of doubt, please consult the Schaeffler engineering service.

Lubrication devices

Lubricators and lubrication systems automatically provide bearings with the correct quantity of lubricant. For manual relubrication, grease guns are suitable.

Lever grease gun

The lever grease gun, see table, can be used to manually relubricate rod ends requiring maintenance via lubrication nipples.

The container on the lever grease gun can be filled with 500 g loose grease or by means of a 400 g cartridge. The cartridge must correspond to DIN 1284 (diameter 53,5 mm, length 235 mm).

The lever grease gun is connected to the lubrication nipple via a reinforced hose. The reinforced hose must be ordered separately, see table.

Available lever grease guns

Available reinforced hoses