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Advantages of lubricants

Thread starter jason350
Start date Jun 6, 2001

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Jun 6, 2001

jason350

Mechanical

I am a student working as an intern and have been entrusted with finding a lubricant to use in a hoist cylinder. Are there any advantages to using a molybdenum disulfide based dry film lubricant over a graphite based dry film lubricant?

Thanks,
Jason