Industrial Lubrication and Tribology: Volume 24 Issue 5

COMMENT and Opinion …

Swansea carry on … THE University College of Swansea has decided that the Swansea Tribology Centre will continue after the initial DTI support ends, which is this month. This…

Reasonable Objections from Tribological Investment by Industry

B.J. COOPER

The Author outlines a method of cost analysis for lubrication in a large industrial plant and points out that there are other savings than those that can be accounted for in…

DEVELOPMENT TESTING OF METAL WORKING LUBRICANTS

I.S. Morton

The attraction of shorter and less expensive methods of performance testing of cutting fluids, as just indicated with respect to broaching operations, applies to all operations in…

New materials and equipment

Designed for service bay applications, a new range of mobile lubricators is announced by Dynaflex Ltd., Sharston Road, Manchester M22 4TD. Designed primarily for fleet operators…

AIR AND MAGNETIC SUSPENSION

C.M. Taylor

The main types of fluid film bearing, irrespective of lubricant, are those relying on surface motion to generate the fluid film pressure and hence load capacity (hydrodynamic…

Investigation of Metal Cutting Using Molybdenum Disulphide as a Cutting Fluid

H. Bagchi, N.P. Mukherjee, S.K. Basu, C.G. TRESIDDER

The significant cutting parameters in turning EN 24 steel with carbide tools using MoS2 as a cutting fluid have been evaluated and an equation connecting the significant…

MIDLAND COMPANY INTRODUCE WASTE OIL TREATMENT PLANT

A RANGE of easy‐to‐operate process plant for treating waste soluble oil emulsion and for installation by industry is now available from MOR Effluent Treatment Company, (a…

Methods of Promoting WEAR RESISTANCE: Discussed at ASME Meeting

AT THE Design Engineering Conference, organised by The American Society of Mechanical Engineers at Chicago in May, several papers were very much concerned with the subject of Wear…

Patent abstracts

I.C. Engine Lubricating System. Farbwerke Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft, vormals Meister Lucius & Bruning, Frankfurt. Spec. No. 1,266,607.