How to select and when to use lubricating greases

Applications for lubricating greases

The factors to consider when selecting the correct lubricant for your business, from amongst the numerous types of lubricating greases available, are many. The recommendations of those who produce them or those who already use them are certainly a great start but someone's word cannot be the only discriminating factor for such an important choice.

How to check friction with a damping lubricating grease

Find out how to friction kinematics with high friction lubricating fluid

Have you ever closed a kitchen drawer with a little too much enthusiasm? It closes quickly 95% of its route but just before closing, it slows right down until gently closing. And the cabinet doors? Same thing. Would you like to achieve the same effect in the mechanical device you are designing? Without having to devise complex kinematics of motion transmission, forced couplings and clutches but simply by interposing a high-friction lubricating grease between the sliding surfaces? Read on and you might just discover something new.

Lovato chooses Maconpaste HP and reduces mechanical wear

"We have reduced mechanical wear by 30% and doubled the number of effective manoeuvres just by replacing the lubricating grease."

These are the words of Giuseppe Ruggeri, head of the contactor project in the electromechanical division of Lovato Electric. We interviewed him to find out about the reasons behind and benefits obtained from completing the functionality tests with Maconpaste HP as a lubricant solution for reducing wear on the pin-bushing coupling in the contactor drive kinematics.

6 ways to destroy your project with the wrong grease

Is your project perfect? Have you started to wonder what might be wrong? Have you ever considered why a mechanical component cannot work without lubrication? Why is its residual life reduced by 95% in the absence of lubrication? And again, why can the right choice of lubricant guarantee smooth operation, longer life and up to 30% better performance? If you think that your mechanical project is okay but you still do not achieve the results you want, continue reading and we will explain the 6 most frequent causes of malfunctions caused by the wrong choice of lubricating fluid. Perhaps you are not factoring in variables of vital importance, such as what is needed to encase and protect surfaces in reciprocal friction and motion, namely a lubricating fluid?

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5 reasons to use automatic lubricators for proper maintenance

A synthetic lubricating grease, even if more effective and valuable than a mineral, is not sufficient on its own to prevent the risk of breakages and even considerable damage to a mechanical component.

The doubts raised by users are recurrent: "I'm using a high-performance lubricating grease that costs four times the previous one, yet bearings are seizing frequently!" or "I replaced the chain lubrication oil and despite costing twice as much, the chain stretched by 10% and lasted half as long as before! Why?"

6 unrivaled properties of a silicone grease

Composition of a lubricating grease: chemistry and structure

lubricating greases: basic concepts

Do you design mechanical components? Do you need to use a lubricating grease to improve the performance of your project? Do you know very little about the characteristics of a lubricating grease? In this article, we will try to clarify the situation, providing you with the basic knowledge on the composition and structure of this type of lubricant, to better orient you in the choice and limit wasted time.