WIND TURBINES, HEAVY MACHINERY
-Jeff Fellhauer, Power Grid Partners

“I have been using Fuel Ox® Infinity Lube™ SG, Liquid Friction Eliminator and Penetrating Lubricant for almost 10 years now within the wind turbine industry. The results are totally unequaled and the sustainability’s light years ahead of all other greases and lubes. Before I was introduced to Infinity Lube™, we were using Shaffer greases, Exxon Mobil, Kluber Isolflex NBU 15, Red and Tacky and countless other greases in the attempt to find some real levels of sustainability to the lube programs for our turbines we service. Now we’ve begun treating the Hawaiian and Alaskan turbines with excellent results. Keeping these turbines properly greased and lubed determines their very lives. All grease we tried before, not only would not present measurable sustainability, but would even cause drag of the energy outputs. The Infinity Lube™ system actually increases the outputs of the turbines.”

Transportation, Maintenance & Repair in the Marine Industry

“Lubrication is essential to our operation due to massive tons moving through our facility. Every grease and lube we tried died out quickly or became saturated. Wear and corrosion quickly became enemy #1. Prior to 2005, all our applications were falling prey to downtime and costly equipment replacements. There was no grease or lube we have not tried but the friction forces driven by weights of 2500 tons coupled with environmental issues proved great losses to our operations. …we tried the [Fuel Ox® Infinity Lube™ SG] blended grease in our Trolley Carriage that submerges out and under the Ohio River within the 140- 10 inch Timken railway carts. These bearings proved impossible to present any measurable sustainability due to water, mud, sand and weights from the barges loaded on the trolley. Once loaded, their cable pulled up a 18% incline on 5 sets of railroad tracks within 35 rail carts all according to the size of the barges. At times, they’re as big as a football field. The dangers are at a maximum level staying far away from the entire unit. Five steel cables pulling extreme weight. In order to make the pulls, greasing these bearings was at least twice a day. We were losing these bearings at times as much as 5 per month. The losses prior to 2005 was of the costs of replacements, tremendous downtime in production, labor and risk to safety. We began using the Infinity Lube™ Super Grease within all the bearings and within days, we began to see tremendous results. The bearings were not extracting water during greasing. They were not heating up during pulls. We stopped losing bearings. As time went on, the bearings were using less grease and the water was hardly coming out. Failures on the bearings decreased. The greasing intervals went from 2 times a day to once or twice a month. We had finally found true sustainability for the Trolley carriage. From 300 ton to 2400 ton loads the bearings were holding. Its very difficult to understand the superiority of [Fuel Ox®’s Infinity Lube™ SG] until you take time and visit our operation.”

They have further reported total savings in bearings alone at $9,645,000 since then. This does not take into account the the elimination of the cost of labor for replacements, decreased downtime for the Trolley and facility plus reductions in greasing intervals. This gives them a ROI of 100x.

Lathe, Drill, Carbide Inserts, Taps
-Mitchell Oliver, Owner, Oliver’s, LLC Precision Machining and Fabricating Standish, MI

Oliver’s, LLC Precision Machining and Fabricating is a precision machine shop specializing in all types of detail machine work and short run production. For the last few months we have been using Fuel Ox® Infinity Lube Liquid Friction Eliminator with amazing results. Below are a few of the ways we have found to use the Fuel Ox® Infinity Lube Liquid Friction Eliminator product to save money and improve the quality of the parts we are machining:

Carbide Inserts: One of the applications that is truly amazing to me is when we apply Infinity Lube to our carbide inserts. We simply use a brush as the applicator and we are seeing an insert life increase of 2 to 3 times over instances when we do not use Fuel Ox® Infinity Lube. This is on both milling and lathe applications. In addition, the parts have a better finish and are more consistent in holding tolerance.

Tapping Fluid: We use a common tapping fluid. We found that when we add Fuel Ox® Infinity Lube Liquid Friction Eliminator at a rate of 2 ounces per quart Fuel Ox® Infinity Lube increased the life of the tap substantially. I actually took a tap that was squeaking and squealing and starting to wear out. I applied the Infinity Lube and continued to tap an additional 500 holes with great success. This was a standard 34 X 10 high speed steel tap used on 4140 tool steel.

Lathe Hydraulics: We had a hydraulic system on a Mazak lathe making noise and pulsating. We added Fuel Ox® Infinity Lube Liquid Friction Eliminator at a rate of 1 ounce per quart to the hydraulic tank and it substantially reduced the noise level and stopped the pulsating.

Drilling Aluminum: Using Fuel Ox® Infinity Lube Liquid Friction Eliminator applied directly to the drill with a brush, we were able to stop all of the galling and build up on the drill, plus we achieved a much better quality finish of the aluminum.