bearing housing oil siphon
bearing housing oil siphon
(OP)
Recently encountered a bearing failure that resulted from apparent lack of lubrication in a pump that had no previous problems in this area. The bearing housing is sump type with oil rings and Trico optomatic oiler. Older machinery guru mentioned an "oil siphon", where an oil leak along the shaft and out along deflector due to overfilling of bearing housing will continue until either the "siphon" is broken or the oil supply is gone (i.e oil supply drops below rings). I'm searching for literature on this issue, has anyone heard of this before?





RE: bearing housing oil siphon
1) Housing was not filled to correct level
2) Oil rings were not functional
3) Trico oiler was not filled
4) Trico oiler was not functional
Walt
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Interesting concept.
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New engineers are sent to works to entertain the workers and to alleviate boredom, it is also good for moral as the technical classes then believe that they have a place in industry and graduate engineers then realize their place and stop interfering in matters that don't concern them.