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Cleaning and Relubricating Facilities


Our contemporary facilities were designed specifically for the custom cleaning and relubrication of commercial and precision ball bearings. This facility houses three separate units:

• GRAY ROOM: Employed for the preparation of bearings for cleaning, as well as the relubrication of commercial grade bearings.

• WASH ROOM: Houses all of the generic and proprietary equipment used to clean bearings in preparation for relubrication.

• CLEAN ROOM: A class 10,000 clean room with class 100 laminar flow work stations, both of which are Certified to Federal Standard 209E. This facility is utilized for the relubrication, testing and final inspection of precision ball bearings.

Our facilities process millions of ball bearings annually and routinely lubricate bearings with standard or exotic lubricants to exacting specifications. The Quality Assurance Program utilized in this facility conforms to MIL-STD-45208 A “Inspection Systems Requirements.” The gauge calibration system conforms to MIL-STD-45662 A. Sampling Plans that conform to MIL-STD 105 D are available.

 

.....The equipment and verification resources employed are:

  • “GMN” noise tester
  • Electronic balances
  • Digital and dial vernier calipers
  • Various generic and proprietary wash stations
  • Gauge blocks
  • Stereo microscopes
  • Radial play gauges
  • Blanchette vertical comparator with a resolution of one millionth of an inch
  • Dorsey/Hamilton radial play gauge with a resolution of twenty millionths of an inch
  • Moore and Sheffield air gauges with a resolution of ten millionths of an inch
  • Dorsey Mechanical vertical comparator with a resolution of twenty millionths of an inch
  • One GMN KGE-3 Ball Bearing Noise and Vibration Analyzer
  • One Bearing Inspection Model BA-20-3 bearing analyzer
  • Two Carl Zeiss Stemi-2000C Stereo-Zoom microscopes
  • One Olympus Stereo Zoom microscope
  • Mitutoyo No 192-140 12” vertical height gauge
  • Starrett grade A inspection level granite surface plate
  • Inch & Metric, Grade 2 Gauge Block Sets
  • One Model 4Tta Wilson Rockwell hardness tester
  • Three electronic and one mechanical balance
  • Torque watches
  • Plug gauges
  • Dial indicators
  • .0001” micrometers
  • Barden Smoothrator
  • Proprietary lubricant metering devices
  • Automatic lubricant metering machines
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