Visgauge

Description

Appearance: • User visual check – quick and efficient. • Frequency: at least weekly. • Appearance should be “clean and bright”. • Haziness indicates > 100 ppm water. • Turbine oils often darken slowly over years of service, however, rapid changes in colour may be due to contamination or accelerated degradation and should be investigated. Viscosity: Most important characteristic: dictates thickness of lubricating fluid. • Very sensitive to contamination or severe oil degradation. • Increase: incorrect oil or formation of a water emulsion. • Decrease: incorrect oil or contamination with solvent.