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new machine lubrication concept

09/29/2009 10:09 AM

new machine lubrication concept


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It is worthy to note an MIT study calculated that six to seven percent of America's Gross National Product is spent repairing wear damage caused by poor lubrication. Those numbers are from a dow corning advertisement. Crunching the numbers using 14 trillion x 7% = 980 billion. Figure about 5 million high school seniors per year in the country. If we do the math in round numbers that is about $200,000 per high school senior each year. If we could just save 50% thru better lubricators we would certainly be more competitive.
I am in the process of developing a pneumatic frl type machine lubricator that makes it possible to detect, monitor and control each and every drop of oil dispensed into the airstream of a machine using compressed air. It is in the prototype stage and has been demonstrated to work as described. You can understand that it has the potential to impact all of industry since it is difficult to manufacture any product in quantity without using various machines that use compressed air. It should reduce downtime and increase thruput due to extended life of all pneumatic machine components including air solenoids, cylinders and air motors. There should be a residual savings of energy as well due to less air loss from reduction of seal wear and constant lubrication. Is this something that you would have applications for or do you know someone who has applications for it? 610-340-4637 brucesu1@verizon.net
Bruce Sunderland

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10/02/2009 4:38 PM

I think that your estimate for lubrication failures is way too high. According to the Canadian National Research Council's Associate Committee on Tribology (the science of friction,wear and lubrication) Canadian industry lost ~ $5 billion annually due to friction and wear. The Canadian GDP is $1303234000000 ($1.3 trillion) so the % is by my calculation, 0.38%.

Before you get too far down this path, you might want to make sure you aren';t infringing on any patents... http://www.skf.com/portal/skf_lub/home/products?contentId=868486

Otherwise, good luck to you.

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03/07/2011 6:27 PM

Hi Milo. I am not one to question the integrity of the projections from MIT. And no there is no infringement but thanks for the added luck.

Bruce

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03/07/2011 6:35 PM

Thanks Milo

Nice link. Just down my Alley but in a different application.

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