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Equipment-level lubrication notes

Notes on building a private-label lubricant programme, and on the equipment the oil ends up in. Written for the decision in front of you — what to order, what to leave out, and what actually decides the grade at a given lubrication point.

Private label

Your first private-label range should be six products, not fortyRange breadth is bought with the cash that should have gone into depth on the products that actually sell. What a first private-label order should contain, and why a supplier telling you to order less is telling you the truth.

Textile

Rapier loom lubrication: why the cam box is not a gearboxLubrication points on a SOMET Super Excel rapier loom — cam box, take-up worm gear, let-off, slow-speed box and weft selector — and the viscosity grade each one actually needs.

Tell us the build year, the hall temperature and what is in the box now.

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