First Filling Of Lubricating Oil In Hydroturbine.

the turbine manufacturer for advice. After all, you wouldn't want to risk invalidating any warranty, would you?

The supplier has a reputation to protect. - USE THAT!

Proper purification is not bad idea There are many possibilities of lube oil being contaminated during transportation,delivery and storage.No body want to take a blame.

I sampled a brand new compressor oil straight from the company's unopend 5 gallon bucket. Sent it in and the sample came back as filthy, in a sense.

Particle Count: 4um-3984...6um-394...10um-31...14um-11.

Not seriously bad but it is a good idea to filter even 'brand' new oil.

I'm campaining for a 3um filtration system. That will give me a more accurate idea of how my comps are really doing.

It is very good practice to always top up/fill oil via filters or purifier.

It is very common for oil to be "dirtier" in the as received state than it would be after passing through the machines own filtration system.

OK, Agree there is end of improvement in terms of quality.

Just think, when people goes to Automobile shop to change lubricatiing oil, does the mechanic filter Lub. oil or just fill the new oil from container.

Check out "wefilterit.com". This will clean particles as small as cigarette smoke.......

Yeah - and damge the oil due to electrostatic discharge and dieseling. Result - very low particle count and lots of lovely varnish. The first easy to count and prove the second much more damaging and difficult to quantify.

Perfectly good product for automobiles, forget it for machinery where one expects many 10's of thousands of hours from the oil.