Lube-Tips - How to choose the correct gear oil
Davor helps customer to choose the correct gear oil visosisty for optimum gear box performance. In order to sleect the best lubricant for a gear set, the following criteria must be addressed:
Base Oil Type
Viscosity-Temperature Relationship A flat VT- curve permits the use of one and the same viscosity of an oil at low and high temperatures.
Good ageing and oxidation stability
These characteristics ensure adequate lubricant service life and use at high service temperatures.
Neutrality towards non-ferrous metals, paints and elastomers
The brass cages of rolling bearings, sliding bearing materials, interior paints as well as the elastomers and plastics which seals and viewing glasses consist of must not be affected by the lubricant.
It is important to understand the methods for viscosity selection and the factors that affect the requirement.
The viscosity for a gear lubricant is primarily chosen to provide a desired film thickness between interacting surfaces at a given speed and load. Because it is difficult to determine the load for most viscosity selection methods, the load is assumed and the determining factor becomes speed. In general, the most common viscosity available in the market is gear oil ISO VG 220.
The chart below is applicable to spur, helical and beveled enclosed gear sets. Other charts exist for worm gears and open gearing. To use this method, the type of gear set, gear geometry, operating temperature and the speed of the slow speed gear must be determined. Additive EP gear oils contain special additives called extreme pressure that enhance their film strength or load-carrying ability. The most common EP additives are sulfur phosphorous, which are chemically active compounds that alter the chemistry of machine surfaces to prevent adhesive wear under boundary lubrication conditions.
In less severe applications, antiwear additives may also be used to provide wear protection under boundary lubrication conditions.
Rust and oxidation inhibited (R&O) gear lubricants do not contain antiscuff additives or lubricity agents. R&O gear oils generally perform well in the categories of chemical stability, demulsibility, corrosion prevention and foam suppression. These products were designed for use in gearing operating under relatively high speeds, low loads, and with uniform loading (no shock loading).
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05 May 2018