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Yes electric motors, sorry for not being specific. We didn't rotate our spares that sit in warehouses for years,sometimes, waiting to be used. Well we put a few in service and had bearing failures because of brunneling. This is rather costly in the power plant because of lost generation. So all...

Hello all I'm new to this site and have a question. We have a bunch of new spare motors that have to be rotated on a monthly basis. Two of them are plain bearing motors with forced lubrication. Not lift oil just pressure fed. One of them we have a pump set up we manufactured and use 797 turbine...