As I mentioned in my previous post, energy contamination, a.k.a. heat is THE biggest enemy of a hydraulic system. Bigger than particle and water contamination these days, mainly due to the widespread understanding and adoption of modern filtration...
If you're a hydraulic machine owner, or responsible for the same, one sure-fire way of transferring a scary amount of dinero from your bank account to your hydraulic repairer's is to allow your hydraulic machines to run hot. The following email...
In '6 Costly Mistakes Most Hydraulics Users Make...' available for free download here, I make the point that a checklist is a tool that serves a very important function: to INFORM and REMIND. In so doing, mistakes or omissions resulting...
A while back I posted this picture of a cracked, hydraulic piston-pump housing on my Facebook page.
One of my FaceBook Friends made the comment that for this to happen, the pump's rotating group would have to have failed and come apart in a sp...
Given that particle contamination of hydraulic oil reduces the service life of hydraulic components, it would seem logical that a hydraulic system can never have too many filters. Well, not exactly...
When a mixture of air and oil is compressed in a hydraulic cylinder it can ignite and burn, or even explode! This is known as 'dieseling' or the 'diesel effect' -- a reference to the combustion process in a diesel engine. And when dieseling occur...
The price of oil sure is defying gravity at the moment. But unless you're the owner of a lot of poorly maintained (read: leaky) hydraulic equipment, the price of gas and diesel is likely hurting your wallet more than the price of hydraulic oil...
As a product group, hydraulic cylinders are almost as common as pumps and motors combined. So if you operate a lot of hydraulic equipment, it’s likely that cylinder repair expense is a significant portion of your total operating costs...
There are a lot of motion-control applications hydraulics has a monopoly on. But what about those applications for which there is viable competition from mechanical or electro-mechanical alternatives...
