This July Swansea University Race Engineering competed in the Formula Student UK event at Silverstone Circuit. The team successfully competed in all of the static and dynamic events. In a field of over a hundred teams they finished 4th is Business Plan Presentation, 7th in Acceleration event and 28th overall.
The team at Swansea Tribology Services and Oil Analysis Services are delighted with their performance and wishes these new engineers the best of success in their careers.
One of the reasons for running our virgin oil promotion was to raise awareness of issues surrounding storage and handling of new oils – in particular use of incorrect oils caused by poor procedures. The following short article from the Machinery Lubrication magazine gives simple Tips for Reducing Wrong Oil Mistakes.
This section has been a little quiet of late – we are busy with our new web database (more on that later). In the meantime we have been asked to advise on picking a lubricant supplier. Machinery lubrication site had some useful answers as always.
The conference was a resounding success with plenty of UK and overseas participants, including some high profile key note speakers. If you want to check out what’s hot in Tribology research these days go to the conference web site and have a look at the proceedings.