Bearing regrease maintenance
Bearing regrease maintenance
(OP)
I want to ask what is the best approach on motor bearings maintenance. Specifically it is better to regrease by adding grease or open the end shield of the motor and change the hole quantity of grrease?





RE: Bearing regrease maintenance
RE: Bearing regrease maintenance
http://www.lubesite.com
Many other brands available, even from Timken. These lubricators feed grease automatically as needed, no underlube or over lube problems
Russell Giuliano
RE: Bearing regrease maintenance
In practice, opening a machine to remove old grease is a lot of work and presents a big potential for contamination. Most users just keep on adding grease "forever". If the bearing housing becomes full (may be evident during greasing, may show up as housing that runs hot continuously), then it would be time to manually change out the grease. At our plant we would also change the bearings at that time.
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RE: Bearing regrease maintenance
I'd have to dig for a while to find a reference, so I will leave that for you, but I have seen them.
rmw