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Additional additives for lubricants
Additional additives for engine oils in cars and fuels have been around for many years. Now, such agents are also available for our industrial oils, and hydraulic oils in particular. But is adding additives to lubricants worth it? Does it make sense, or are there risks involved?
In principle, modern lubricants are designed to meet all the relevant requirements to perfection. To achieve this, individual additives and additive packages of selected additives that merge well together are added to the base oils. The manufacture of the lubricants is designed in such a way that the additives can work to their full potential in later use. Adding additives at a later date therefore only makes sense in exceptional cases.
- A lab report with no indication of water content
- Additional additives for lubricants
- Additional tests, the supplement to the all-inclusive analysis kits from OELCHECK
- Analyses and individual tests only in conjunction with specification of the lubricant and/or data sheet.
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- Black hydraulic oil due to diesel effect
- Black oil in diesel engine
- Bypass filter for engine oil?
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- Can values change if the oil samples are stored for a long period of time?
- Cause for deviating purity classes in comparative analyses
- Correlation between wear, impurities and particle counting
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- Diesel fuel fit for the winter
- Different values from OELCHECK and another laboratory
- Discrepancies between laboratory results and portable particle counters
- Discrepancies in the "Additives" section - do these indicate a mixture of two different types of oil?
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- Gear damage despite oil analyses?
- High levels of wear metals with normal purity classes?
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- How clean are the OELCHECK sample bottles?
- How do I take an oil sample correctly?
- How much oil does OELCHECK need for an oil analysis?
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- Is a fresh oil analysis worthwhile?
- Is it possible to simplify the documentation of OELCHECK lab-reports?
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- Miraculous oil increase in the engine of a construction machine
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- Oil samples from abroad
- Parameters for grease analyses
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- SAE engine oil or HLP hydraulic oil for construction machinery hydraulics?
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- Saving money with lubricants - price alone doesn't cut it.
- Shipping oil samples - what do you have to consider?
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- Soot index for petrol engines
- Sulphur in oil - impurity, oil component or additive?
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- The shear viscosity of greases
- The time factor when taking samples correctly
- Tribologists at OELCHECK
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- What is meant by the term "bio-oil"?
- What percentage of water in the oil is critical?
- What's an OELCHECK "same day analysis"?
- Why are no values for oxidation given in some OELCHECK laboratory reports?
- Why do oils become cloudy?
- Why do you not indicate any "limit values" in your laboratory reports?
- Why does my oil foam?
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