Re: LE-Oils, No Tools

Posted by Gene Davis (Ga) on December 20, 2006 at 21:14:57 from (24.252.196.232):

In Reply to: LE-Oils, No Tools posted by Jim Johnson on December 20, 2006 at 19:43:44:

I worked 3 different companies, (buy outs)in the mining industry for 40 years and for a lot of that time was responsible for the daily lube service and oil changing of heavy equipment and industrial machinery. We ran a lot of tests comparing quality, price and life expectancy of oil and lubricants. We found that the Lubrication Engineers products looked very pretty in their beautiful blue with red letter cans and no deposit/no return drums and the red colored product with metallic looking flakes in the makeup of it was very appealing.
The results of a lot of testing under severe loads and very gritty/dusty conditions with an absolute muddy mess sometimes track deep on the crawlers and excavators showed us that the COST EFFECTIVENESS of the LE products was way behind the other brands. Their grease did stay in the bearings a little better than most others, Alithicon and Mystik JT series greases stayed almost equal to the LE products at 2-3 times less the price. The extra cost of the LE product meant that you could grease the bearings and buckets of the equipment 3-4 times as often compared to the LE products. Alithicon proved to be the most cost effecient of the greases in the 0 to 120 degree weather we were in. We used an independent testing lab"s spectroscope in conjunction with their electron microscope to identify the metal and non metal particles in the samples also to tell us the wear results and to project the life expectancy left of the oil change interval. The greatest thing LE had going for them was that they had a good salesman with a real good comission on the product he sold. We didn"t use it except when he got to some of the management big wheels and convinced them to buy it. The results in the pit showed it to not be cost effective on a daily basis.

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