We are providing the world's best lubricating equipment, heavy duty fluid pump products and world-class technical services to industry and automotive service specialists.
Our dealer network includes thousands of retail outlets that provide industrial system companies, oil equipment service dealers, and general purpose lubrication tools and equipment.
Includes Lincoln's portable lubrication pump, hose roll, Kleenseal®, grease fittings, control valves, drains, and full range grease guns including Powerluber®, battery powered and pneumatic grease guns.
LincolnLube.com - Focus on handheld lubrication equipment and replacement pumps, reels and gauges to service automotive aftermarket and industrial counter sales channels
LincolnVSE.com - Offers a complete fluid dispensing system for automotive service industry customers
Automobile / truck dealers, municipal / transportation garage, speeding up oil change work, transportation and building maintenance cabin, lubricant application and other vehicle maintenance facilities
LincolnBuilds.com - Professional information on the construction industry, focused on automatic lubrication applications
LincolnDrives.com - Professional information on road fleet and work vehicle with emphasis on self-lubrication
LincolnLubesRail.com - Special page on Lincoln's Wayside lubrication system for applying grease to curved tracks
PowerLuber.com - All about battery powered PowerLuber, this is our most popular lubrication tool.
Mityvac.com - Site details Manual vacuum pumps and kits of the Mityvac brand, liquid exhaust equipment, brake and clutch bleed kit, engine diagnostic equipment, cooling system tester, other special tools and accessories
Grease is more viscous than oil and is the most widely used lubricant. These compounds are applied using specific equipment such as grease guns. When purchasing these industrial lubricants, please make sure they fit the purpose you use them. In modern machines, manufacturers have developed centralized lubrication mechanisms. This has been proved to be very beneficial for users, as it reduces downtime. Grease can be injected before switching to lubrication point. Lubricant spreads to various parts of the machine and performs its tasks
Which is better, oil or grease? More than 95% of the ingredients are lubricated with oil, not because it lubricates better, because it has a wider range of properties. Grease is usually used only when the oil can not be used because the lubrication point of the seal is problematic or expensive. Normally, grease is applied to rolling bearings, and nearly 80% of the bearings are lubricated with grease. Atomic emission spectrometry (AES) by the Rotrode method can be used to provide information on the level of wear, impurities, thickeners and additives in grease samples. Increasing iron and chrome values indicate that the rolling bearing is worn, copper, lead and tin indicating corrosion or wear of the bearing cage.
Unsealed bearings usually have grease fittings for periodic lubrication with grease guns or oil cups that are regularly filled with oil. Prior to the 1970s, most machines did not encounter sealed bearings, refueling and lubrication were more common activities than now. For example, automobile chassis required "lubrication operation" as often as engine oil replacement, but today's automobile chassis is sealed for almost a lifetime. From the late 1700s to the middle of the 20th century, the industry relied on a lot of workers called oil cans to lubricate machines with oil tanks.