Steel mill had a pillow block bearing running at 326 degrees. Normal operating temperature was 190 degrees. The fourteen-year old bearing was smoking, but they had to keep production going until the morning when maintenance could fix it with new parts. They used EP-2 Grease and twenty minutes later, the temperature had dropped to 260 degrees, the smoking and squealing had stopped. Through the night, the temperature had dropped to 130 degrees and leveled out at 167.
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