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Machinery Lubrication March-April 2022

Machinery Lubrication magazine published by Noria Corporation

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www.machinerylubrication.com | March - April 2022 | 25 ML ML ML boxes that I keep on hand because they are hard to find, an oil fog being maintained inside the headspace can protect those surfaces. e mist and fog we need to worry about is the stuff we aren't generating on purpose. Oil is really good about START YOUR FREE SUBSCRIPTION www.machinerylubrication.com sticking to stuff for the most part, so if I have a reservoir that has an open breather and it keeps generating a bit of mist, I will likely see indicators of this (as long as I know what I am looking at), like dust settling and sticking to the oil on top of the reservoir. e mist is causing a bit of house- keeping, so what? What happens if I am maintaining the headspace in that reservoir? e oil is going to permeate the filter media and either plug a spin-on filter or coat the desiccant and prevent it from doing its job. So that little bit of mist could end up causing moisture accumulation in the headspace and oil, or it could create a situation where the reservoir won't breathe at all. If the reservoir needs to breathe and can't, something else somewhere in that system is going to give. It might be a seal somewhere, control valves, or it could be that the machine goes into a safe mode and just shuts itself down. None of these situations are going to help production or reliability. So, the next time you walk past a reservoir, gearbox, hydraulic system or pump and you see that bit of dust that always settles in the same spots, or worse yet, actual mist coming out of the breather, take a minute to figure out why this is happening and what can you do to fix it. ML Jeremie Edwards is an A ssociate Technical Consultant at Noria Corporation. He is one of an elite few certified by the International Council for Machinery Lubrication (ICML) as a Machinery Lubrication Engineer (MLE) and did so in order to become the best advisor for clients when it comes to their continuing education needs. Before joining Noria, Jeremie served six years in the U.S. Army as a parachute rigger and was deployed in Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Turkey and G er m a ny. C ont a c t Jere m ie at jedwards@noria.com

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