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Old 08-28-2016, 09:05 AM
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Originally Posted by Turbotronic
Not entirely. The Festo fittings are designed to work with petroleum based lubricants that are used to lubricate air cylinders and keep seals from drying out. If we had used pure kerosene which depolymerizes many plastics and rubbers then maybe. But we run oil as well.
Not exactly. Festo requirements for the QS line is air, dry or mixed with a very limited amount of atomised oil. Anything else is out of specs. The max amount of oil is very low.
"Bio oils, max 0.1 mg/m3. Larger amounts may result in premature product failure"
"Mineral oils: 5 mg/m3. A higher residual oil content is not permitted. This can lead to malfunction"

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