Maintenance Method For Stainless Steel Chain

Stainless steel chain is a common device for transmission. In fact, stainless steel chain needs proper maintenance. Although it is stainless steel product, it will be oxidation after using for a long time. At this time, we must take good maintenance for stainless steel chain. We have some introduce about maintain this chain.


1.Tightness of stainless steel chain should be suitable and don’t make it too tight or too loose. It will damage chain.

2.Stainless steel chain should keep clean and far away from sunlight and rain. It could prevent chain connect with alkaline organic solvent.

3.You had better change new chain as soon as the stainless steel chain has been worn seriously. So that we can ensure good effect and extend its service life.

4.During the stainless steel working, you should add oil in time in order to make the chain work more smoothly and quickly. At the same time, adding oil can reduce wear condition.

5.Old chain can not be mixed into new chain. Because it will produce attack and even damage chain.

6.Sometimes we may not use the stainless steel chain for a long time. You had better use wash the chain by diesel or kerosene. Then store the chain on the dry place and painted oil.

Lubrication Analysis Of Agriculture Roller Chain

Agricultural three wheel transportation vehicle, tractor, harvester and other agricultural roller chains are usually used outside. The dust must fall on the sleeve and pin of the chain. Chain lubrication is regular manual oil drop or brush oil lubrication. So the main wear mechanism is abrasive wear. The surface of sleeve and pin is in high hardness under the abrasive wear mechanism. It is helpful to improve wear resistance. At the same time, The initial surface hardness of pin shaft is higher than the initial surface hardness of sleeve. It is in favor of reducing the wear rate.

Agricultural roller chain main wear mechanism is scratch with oil lubrication conditions. Fatigue crack propagation is the main factors influencing the fatigue life. The higher surface hardness, the faster crack growth rate. Certainly scratch is more easily to be happen and wear will also be more seriously. It offers important basis to designing original surface hardness of agriculture roller chain.

There is furrow with determine direction. This is wear surface features to pin shaft and sleeve. While sleeve wear surface present cross fatigue crack, the pin shaft wear surface showed obvious adhesion phenomenon. The typical plowing effect of sleeve and pin shaft parts is further showing that the main wear mechanism of agriculture roller chain is abrasive wear.