Virgin oil testing has always been essential. This article in Machinery Lubrication explains why and also gives a nice breakdown of the ISO code meaning and significance
This leads quite naturally into the following article on Cleanliness Targets
Another increasingly relevant reason is to run the RULER test on the virgin oil so that further RULER analysis on the used oil references the correct starting point.
We will start the articles section off with the basics Oil Sampling Do’s and Don’ts and other useful advice from the Machinery Lubrication magazine.
As many of you are aware we have switched over to our web portal for reporting oil analysis results. If you’ve sent some samples recently you would have been issued with login details. If you haven’t seen the portal yet then below is a tiny preview. Feel free to drop us a line if youRead More
Conversion of Aqueous ICP methodology to that with Internal Standard (IS). We are introducing an improvement into the aqueous ICP analysis by adding an Internal Standard to the test method. An Internal Standard is an additional element, that is not expected to be found in the substance being measured, which is introduced into the dilutionRead More