Various hydraulic lubrication applications addressed

The hydraulics, pneumatics and electronics provider Custom Fluidpower has been involved in the design, installation and maintenance of various lubrication and oil systems recently.

In one project, the company was tasked to undertake a manual lube grease of a customer’s drive station. As one of the key factors was improving safety, the company grouped the manual points to simplify greasing to a safe location. They reduced 700 m of 3/8″ stainless tubing in the current system to the much tidier and safer labelled anchor manifolds, completed over a one-week period.

In another project, a stacker machine had a centralised grease system installed by the company. The project took four tradesmen over three months to fit out a complete centralised dual-line grease system from the pumping station to service all bogies, bearings and pivots via metering valves.

The company has also designed and implemented a complete oil lubrication system package for another customer. The system, fitted on a shiploader, provides improved cooling, filtration and serviceability. The units are also being manufactured on other gearboxes.

Another Custom Fluidpower project saw an oil circulation system developed and installed for a reclaimer bucketwheel gearbox system. The company replaced OEM equipment with local stock pumps and re-piped the equipment. The project was repeated on all the reclaimer gearboxes.