Testimonials
Monolec® Multiplex Lubricant effectively lubricates equipment in extreme temperatures, improving performance and durability.
key takeaways
Challenge
Michigan’s extreme weather, with temperatures ranging from -20°F in winter to 100°F in summer, causes issues with stiff commercial grease, making it difficult to lubricate outdoor equipment like scrap conveyors and cranes, leading to inadequate lubrication.
LE solution
Monolec® Multiplex Lubricant (4622) offers excellent mechanical stability, corrosion resistance, and extreme pressure performance across a broad temperature range, ensuring superior low-temperature pumpability and exceptional wear protection with LE’s exclusive additive.
Results
Monolec 4622 grease effectively lubricates equipment during cold winter weather, unlike the previous commercial grease, ensuring the longevity of bearings and pins, according to maintenance supervisor Dave Sherbenaut.
This is great grease, my grease man really loves it.
- Dave Sherbenaut, Maintenance Supervisor
Customer Profile
Lorbec Metals USA, Ltd. is in the business of recycling and processing both ferrous and non-ferrous scrap metal. Due to the nature of the business, most of the equipment remains outside year round. They have been an LE customer since January 2001.
Application
The primary application concern was a scrap conveyor that was used to elevate aluminum scrap from ground level up about twenty feet, where the scrap was dumped into the hopper of a baler. Other applications include a front-end loader, cranes, and the baler.
Challenge
The volatile Michigan weather can range from a -20°F (-29°C) in the winter to a temperature of 100°F (38°C) in the summer. During the winter months, greasing the outdoor equipment was a problem. The hand pumps were hard to use, as the commercial grease was very stiff. The worst problem was the scrap conveyor that fed the aluminum scrap into the baler. Here the lubrication point had forty feet of lube lines between it and the bearings that needed the grease. During the cold weather it was impossible to get the lube into the bearings. The pins and bearing on the cranes, loader and baler were also a concern since they were not getting adequate lube.
LE Solution
The local LE lubrication consultant recommended Monolec® Multiplex Lubricant (4622). Monolec 4622 has good mechanical stability, corrosion resistance, extreme pressure performance and a broad temperature range of -40°F to 400°F (-40°C to 204°C). This gives excellent low temperature pumpability and with Monolec, LE’s exclusive wear reducing additive, it provides exceptional film strength and proven protection against wear.
Results
According to Dave Sherbenaut, maintenance supervisor, the equipment is getting properly lubed, for the first time, during the cold winter weather. It was impossible to lube the scrap conveyor with the commercial grease they were using since it would not pump up the 40-foot long grease line. Dave felt the bearings and pins would not last using the commercial product. However, Monolec 4622 was getting the job done like no grease he had ever seen. Dave said, “This is great grease, my grease man really loves it.”