Are excavators high maintenance?
Unlike automobiles for conventional road use, the heavy machines employed in mining such as excavators, must be able to negotiate rough landscape and harsh environments.
How often should I service my mini excavator?
JCB recommends routine maintenance checks at 10 hours (daily), 50 hours (weekly), 500 hours (every six months), 1,000 hours (yearly) and 2,000 hours (every two years). The most comprehensive and time-consuming maintenance still takes place at longer intervals, while faster, simpler maintenance is required more often.
How many hours does an excavator last?
Excavator Mini-excavators typically offer a similar average lifespan of around 10,000 hours. For both excavators and mini-excavators, you’ll want to pay special attention to the undercarriage wear and the condition of the tracks.
How often do you grease an excavator?
Your compact excavator’s pins and bushings need to be greased every day that it’s on the job. A good rule of thumb is to use one to three shots of grease. Too little grease will cause accelerated wear because it won’t provide enough lubrication.
What grease should I use on my excavator?
The two most common types of grease used and recommended for pins and bushes on construction equipment are Moly Grease and Extreme Pressure Grease.
What is the best grease for excavators?
We recommend using a NLGI #2 (Polyurea or multipurpose) grease. What does NLGI mean? NLGI stands for the National Lubricating Grease Institute and is the institution that certifies grease. Grease can range from NLGI #000 to NLGI #6, but the most common is NLGI #2 because it can be used for a wide temperature range.
What is the best grease for gears?
Synthetic hydrocarbons are the most widely used synthetic lubricant for gears and gearboxes. They offer good low temperature performance to -60°C and good oxidative stability. Synthetic hydrocarbons are compatible with many plastics and relatively inexpensive compared to other synthetic fluids.
How often should you grease a skid steer?
every 10 hours
Does the color of grease mean anything?
One thing we are sure of, however – color does not denote a particular type of grease, whether it is red, green, blue or yellow. The color is simply a dye added by manufacturers for marketing purposes, to more easily distinguish the different greases in their product lines.
What is the difference between NLGI #1 and #2?
There are two basic types of grease for most equipment and machinery applications: NLGI #1 grease and NLGI #2 grease. So what’s the difference? Less thickener makes a #1 grease more tractable and slippery, while #2 grease has more thickener, making it stiffer and great for all-purpose applications.
Can you mix red and blue grease?
Don’t Mix Grease, but Change If Needed The key is to make the switch as close to 100 percent as possible. If you can, start with completely clean parts and new grease. Otherwise, greasing more often will flush out the old incompatible grease faster.
What is the difference between red and blue grease?
Although there is no hard and fast rule, red could be indicative of grease for high temperatures, blue for cold temperatures and green for environment friendliness.
What kind of grease is white?
White lithium grease is a lubricant that typically comes in an aerosol form. It is a heavy-duty lubricant that is used for metal to metal applications. Lithium is a type of thickener, so it not only provides structure to hold the oil in place, but it also acts as a sponge by releasing small amounts of oil during use.
Can you mix two different greases?
When two incompatible greases are mixed, one of two things generally happens: the mixture hardens and will not release any of the oil or the mixture softens and releases all of the oil. In either case, the end result is basically the same; there is effectively no lubrication.
Is it bad to mix greases?
Mixing incompatible greases can have dire consequences. They may react together and cause a separation of the base oil or oils from the thickeners of the two greases. When this happens, the base oil can no longer stay in place and you get a messy situation – oil oozing or running out of the area where it was applied.
What greases are compatible?
Greases are considered to be compatible if the following conditions are met:
- The dropping point of the mixture is not significantly lower than that of the individual greases.
- The mechanical stability of the mixture is within the range of consistency of the individual greases.
What does NLGI stand for?
National Lubricating Grease Institute
What does NLGI #2 mean?
The most commonly used greases, such as those used in automotive bearings, would use a lubricant that is NLGI grade 2, which has the stiffness of peanut butter. Grades within this range can operate in a higher temperature range and at higher speeds than NLGI grades 000-0.
Are all NLGI 2 greases the same?
There are nine different NLGI “grades” including 000, 00, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. This tells us two things, EP 2 grease is a NLGI Grade 2 and it is fortified with Extreme Pressure (EP) additives. This tells us nothing else about the thickener type, base oil type or viscosity of the base oil.