Industrial Lubrication and Tribology: Volume 3 Issue 1

A note on the Low Pressure Regions occurring in the Hydrodynamic Lubricating Films of Journal Bearings

J.A. COLE

A point in the operation of journal bearings under hydrodynamic or thick film conditions which has always excited controversy is the question of the negative pressures predicted…

CRANKCASE EXPLOSIONS: and their prevention

IT is frequently assumed, in all discussions on crankcase explosions, that (1) the oil and the air mixture in an engine crankcase is normally too rich to burn, and (2) piston…

MODERN LABORATORY TESTING EQUIPMENT: simulates service conditions

The importance of engine testing lubricants is now fully appreciated by most large consumers of internal combustion engine oils, and by most oil companies. The value of chemical…

STATIONARY OIL ENGINE LUBRICATION PROBLEMS

E.B. Rawlins

The modern diesel engine in its many designs and types presents varied problems to the lubrication engineer.

D.E.U.A. REPORT on Working Costs

The Diesel Engine Users Association recently presented their Report on Heavy‐Oil Engine Working Costs, at their Annual General Meeting. This covered 1948–49 and as usual includes…

Centralized system for shears

The advantages of centralized systems of lubrication are so valuable that once a factory engineer has installed one on any machine that has been difficult to lubricate manually…

The Revised SAE Classification of Crankcase Oils

The revised classification for crankcase oils, passed “by the Society of Automobile Engineers Fuels and Lubricants Technical Committee were given in Saybolt Universal Seconds in…

FILTER TESTS with the aid of a DUST TUNNEL

W.S. James, Gratz Brown

The Fram dust tunnel is a room 50 ft. long by 15 ft. wide, by 13 ft. high. A 200,000 cu. ft./min. blower is mounted slightly below floor level in one end of the room. It is driven…