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Stop Contamination in its Tracks
Keep hydraulic fluid clean during storage and transfer.
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Of course, the real payback is in reduced component wear. "If you use a caddy to keep fluid clean, and you prevent a hydraulic pump from failing, it can give you savings to buy several filter caddies," Navarro states.
In Urbano's opinion, using a filter cart is really just a matter of following proper maintenance procedures. "Intuitively, you know that cleaner hydraulic oil is going to give you less wear and tear on that hydraulic system," he comments, whereas, unfiltered oil can cause thousands of dollars worth of damage. "Say that you put unfiltered oil in a machine and it causes a pump to fail. A high-dollar piston pump can be $10,000 on one machine."
Filter carts are a necessary tool to help prevent such failures. "We don't really recognize this as an ROI piece of equipment," says Urbano. "It's just a mandatory way of doing the proper oil transfer."
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