Industrial Lubrication and Tribology: Volume 30 Issue 6

SELF‐OILED JOURNAL BEARINGS

W.W. Gardner

CERTAIN bearing applications require the use of a lubrication system contained within the bearing housing and independent of any outside systems or power sources. Marine main…

Blow hot—Blow cold

S. Lundberg

When components made of different materials are combined to make anything mechanical, consideration must be given to the fact that they will not have the same thermal behaviour…

AN INDIAN EXPERIMENT

Arjun Kumar, R.A. Rao, R.B. Gupta, S. Singhal

THIS paper describes a test method, developed on the Kirloskar AV‐1 (naturally aspirated) single‐cylinder diesel engine, for evaluating tendency towards detergency, ring sticking…

NEWCOMER TO THE ‘TALY’ FAMILY

COLLABORATION between Rank Taylor Hobson, the Leicester‐based metrology equipment specialists, and the French Renault concern, has resulted in the joint production of a new…

Wellworthy get it under control

R. MUNRO

DESPITE its name the well known Lo‐Ex aluminium alloy used extensively and successfully over the years for all types of piston has limitations in respect of the expansion…