How to properly maintain SKF bearings

1. When cleaning and removing the bearing, first take a look at the appearance with photography. Also, verify the amount of lubricant remaining and sample the lubricant before cleaning the bearings.

a. The cleaning of the bearing is carried out by rough washing and fine washing, and a metal mesh frame can be placed on the bottom of the used container.

b. When rough washing, remove the grease or adhesive with a brush or the like in the oil. At this time, if the bearing is rotated in the oil, be careful that the rolling surface will be damaged by foreign matter or the like.

c. When washing finely, slowly rotate the bearing in the oil and carry out it carefully. The cleaning agent generally used is a neutral non-aqueous diesel oil or kerosene, and a warm alkali liquid or the like is sometimes used as needed. Regardless of which cleaning agent is used, it is often filtered and kept clean. Immediately after cleaning, apply anti-rust oil or anti-rust grease to the bearing.

2, inspection and judgment

In order to judge whether the removed bearing can be reused, it is important to check its dimensional accuracy, rotation accuracy, internal clearance, mating surface, raceway surface, cage and seal. Regarding the inspection result, it can be judged by a person who is using a conventional bearing or a proficient bearing.

The criteria for judgment vary depending on mechanical properties and importance, inspection period, and the like. Bearings must not be reused if they are damaged and must be replaced.

1) Breakage and defects of bearing components.

2) Peeling of the rolling surface of the raceway surface.

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Motor bearing cleaning process

The motor should normally be cleaned and refueled after 2000 hours of use. There are two ways to clean the bearing:

First, the hot oil cleaning method due to the use of a long time, soft dry oil or anti-rust cream hardened bearings, should be immersed in 100-200 ° C hot oil, clamp the bearing with pliers, brush the oil on the bearing clean. The soft dry oil or rust-proof paste is melted when heated to 100-200 ° C, and is easily washed out from the gap of the bearing. Sometimes the bearing is shaken several times in the oil. Oil will also flow away from the gap.

When cleaning the centripetal spherical bearing of the old motor or the imported motor, the ball, the bead frame and the inner ring should be laterally turned out from the outer ring and then immersed in the hot oil. The short cylindrical roller bearing should also be rolled when cleaning. The bead frame, the inner ring and the outer ring are disengaged.

When hot oil is cleaned, the temperature of the oil should not exceed 20 °C. If you use an open flame to directly heat, you should take care to prevent the oil from burning. The bearing should be hung in the oil pan, and the bottom will cause overheating and reduce the hardness.

Second, the general cleaning method put the bearing in kerosene for 5-10 minutes, pinch the inner ring with one hand, and rotate the outer ring with the other hand, the dry oil or anti-rust cream on the bearing will fall. Then put the bearing into the cleaner kerosene, brush it with a soft brush, wash the oil in the ball and the gap, then put it in the gasoline for 1 time, take it out and put it on clean paper. When cleaning the radial spherical ball bearing and the short cylindrical roller bearing, the ball, the bead frame, the inner ring and the outer ring should be disconnected and cleaned.

The cleaning of the bearing mounted on the shaft is mainly by the method of spraying oil or spraying with a grease gun. The oil that is easy to be cleaned is first used with kerosene and then with gasoline; the oil that is difficult to clean is first washed with hot oil of 100-200 °C. Or oil gun spray, then clean with gasoline.

Be careful not to scratch the bearing with a sharp tool: hard grease or rust, so as not to damage the smoothness of the bearing rolling elements and the groove ring. The cleaned bearings are wiped dry with a clean cloth.

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