Power Tools
A more powerful tool improves productivity and helps customers meet their bottom line. As tools go cordless and are designed to be smaller and lighter, maximizing performance becomes even more challenging. How can grease improve performance? Specialty grease can prevent common causes for failure and enhance your mechanical design by reducing temperatures, improving torque performance and increasing the load handling ability of tools.
Reduce Temperatures
Lubricants reduce frictional heat. A lubricant that cannot withstand high temperatures will oxidize and leave behind several by products such as acids. The acids will attack the metal surface and lead to increased wear and corrosion of the gear.
Increase Speed & Improve Torque Performance
Design engineers are often tasked with reducing torque in small, high-speed motors. Lubricants reduce starting and running torque by reducing friction between sliding surfaces.
Improve Load Handling Ability
Lubricants fortified with extreme pressure additives can help support heavy loads by creating a barrier between connecting surfaces that prevents wear. Synthetic ester greases are particularly suited for preventing heavily loaded metal-on-metal wear.
Reduce Weight
When tasked with improving ergonomics and reducing weight, design engineers turn towards light weight plastic designs. Nye offers lubricants that are compatible with metal and most plastics and elastomers.
Minimize Noise & Vibration
Noise and vibration are often a result of friction between two components. A film of lubricant prevents two moving surfaces from coming in contact with one another to minimize noise.
Reduce Force & Improve Feel
Workplace injuries are more likely to occur when excessive force is required to actuate triggers, switches, and other power tool controls. Nye offers a line of motion control greases that vary in shear resistance to assist engineers in controlling the precise torque and speed of their components.
Lubricants protect your components against common causes of failure including wear, environmental corrosion, and short circuits. Our lubricants designed for power tools can:
- Improve tool durability
- Extend the life of components
- Extend run time
- Shorten charge time
Lubricants for Power Tool Components
Nye's specialty lubricants have been specified by leading OEM's in the power tool industry for more than 20 years and help improve the performance of a variety of components.
Shock, vibration, and temperature cycles create micro-motion electrical contact wear (fretting); leading to connection failure. Nye’s greases lubricate the electrical contacts and protects them from water, oxidation, and corrosion, thus improving power tool reliability and durability.
Nye Products: Rheotemp™ 769G
A tight electrical connection between the power tool and the battery pack can often make attaching and detaching the battery pack difficult. Nye’s greases lubricate this connection reducing the mating force, while also protecting this connection from wear due to repetitive use.
Nye Products: NyoGel® 760G
Designed for demanding temperatures and chemical exposures, these greases reduce electrical contact wear and increase power tool lifetime, while still being compatible with plastic materials.
Nye Products: Uniflor™ 8511
Power tool gears encounter both high loads and high-speed operations, with frequent on/off cycling. Nye’s greases minimize gear wear, lower tool temperatures, reduce power consumption, extend operating life, and improve performance. NLGI Grade 1 and 2 greases are available depending on your application.
Nye Products: Rheolube® 380 & Rheolube® 380-GI
Plastic-to-plastic mechanical interfaces often need lubrication to address issues with manufacturing tolerance variations. Nye’s plastic compatible greases lubricate these interfaces while also imparting a consistent “feel” thereby improving the ergonomics of the power tool. Select the “feel” by trying a few different greases from the NyoGel® 774 Series.
Nye Products: NyoGel® 774 Series
Nye’s Power Tool Lubricants
| Product | Temperature Range |
Material Compatibility |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| RHEOTEMP 769G | -40 to 175 °C | Good | A connector grease that offers advanced insertion force and fretting protection at high temperatures. |
| NYOGEL 760G | -40 to 135 °C | Good | Nye’s industry standard connector grease that protects against fretting, reduces insertion force, and seals against water, dirt, and debris. |
| UNIFLOR 8511 | -50 to 225°C | Good | Recommended for use in sliding contacts and applications that require excellent thermo-oxidative stability and resistance to aggressive chemicals. |
| RHEOLUBE 380-G1 | -50 to 130 °C | Testing Recommended | A softer version of Rheolube 380 with higher oil separation. |
| NYOGEL 774 | -20 to 125 °C | Good | A line of synthetic hydrocarbon lubricants with medium tack for improved adhesion at high speeds. Theses greases also resist mechanical displacement from plastic or metal surfaces. |
Related Technical Articles & White Papers
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