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SKF Bearing Greases and their Applications
Last Updated: 07/16/2012
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 LGMT 2

SKF general purpose industrial and automotive bearing grease

 Agricultural equipment

SKF general purpose industrial and automotive bearing grease

 Automotive wheel bearings

 Conveyors

 Small electric motors

 Industrial fans

 

 LGMT 3

 SKF general purpose industrial and automotive bearing grease

 Bearings >100 mm (3,9 in) shaft size

SKF general purpose industrial and automotive bearing grease

 Outer bearing ring rotation

 Vertical shaft applications

 Continuous high ambient temperatures >35 °C (95 °F)

 Propeller shafts

 Agricultural equipment

 Car, truck and trailer wheel bearings

 Large electric motors

 

 LGEP 2

 SKF high load, extreme pressure (EP) bearing grease

 Pulp and paper making machines

SKF high load, extreme pressure (EP) bearing grease

 Jaw crushers

 Traction motors for rail vehicles

 Dam gates

 Work roll bearings in steel industry

 Heavy machinery, vibrating screens

 Crane wheels, sheaves

 

 LGFP 2

 SKF food compatible bearing grease

 Bakery equipment

SKF food compatible bearing grease

 Food processing equipment

 Multi–pack cassette bearings

 Wrapping machines

 Conveyor bearings

 Bottling machines

 

 LGEM 2

 SKF High viscosity bearing grease with solid lubricants

 Rolling element bearings running at low speed and very high loads

 Jaw crushers

 Track laying machines

 Lift mast wheels

 Building machines such as mechanical rams, crane arms and crane hooks

 

 LGEV 2

SKF Extremely high viscosity bearing grease with solid lubricants

 Trunnion bearings on rotating drums

 Support and thrust rollers on rotary kilns and dryers

 Bucket wheel excavators

 Slewing ring bearings

 High pressure roller mills

 Crushers

 

 LGLT 2

 SKF low temperature, extremely high speed bearing grease

 Textile spinning spindles

SKF low temperature, extremely high speed bearing grease

 Machine tool spindles

 Instruments and control equipment

 Small electric motors used in medical and dental equipment

 In–line skates
 Printing cylinders

 Robots

 

 LGGB 2

 SKF green biodegradable bearing grease 

 Agricultural and forestry equipment

 Construction and earth-moving equipment

 Mining and conveying equipment

 Water treatment and irrigation

SKF green biodegradable bearing grease 

 Locks, dams, bridges

 Linkages, rod ends

 Other applications where contamination of the environment is a concern

 

 LGWM 1

SKF extreme pressure low temperature bearing grease

 Windmills

 Screw conveyors

 Centralised lubrication systems

 Spherical roller thrust bearing applications

 

 LGWA 2

SKF high load, extreme pressure, wide temperature range bearing grease

 Wheel bearings in cars, trailers and trucks

 Washing machines

 Electric motors

 

 LGHB 2

SKF high load, high temperature, high viscosity bearing grease

 Steel on steel plain bearings

 Pulp and paper making machines

 Asphalt vibrating screens

 Continuous casting machines

 Sealed spherical roller bearings operating up to 150 °C (302 °F)

 Withstands peak temperatures of 200 °C (392 °F)

 Work roll bearings in steel industry

 Mast rollers of fork lift trucks

 

 LGHP 2

 SKF high performance, high temperature bearing grease

Electric motors: Small, medium and large

SKF high performance, high temperature bearing grease

Industrial fans, including high speed fans
Water pumps

Rolling bearings in textile, paper processing and drying machines

Applications with high speed ball bearings operating at medium and high temperatures

Clutch release bearings

Vertical shaft applications

Kiln trucks and rollers

Vibrating applications

 

 LGET 2

SKF extreme temperature, extreme condition bearing grease

 Bakery equipment (ovens)

 Kiln truck wheels

 Load rollers in copying machines

 Wafer baking machines

 Textile dryers

 Film stretching tenders

 Electric motors running at extreme temperatures

 Emergency / hot fans

 Vacuum pumps

 



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