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The following are figures found to be practical and acceptable to most customers,
and are frequently used by our service departments. These figures would apply to
all bearings used in our mud pumps and drawworks with the provision that they
passed a visual inspection.
These are extreme outer limits and in some cases, the bearing may begin to spall,
which will cause damage to other parts.
The best way to detect bearing spalling is through the use of an oil sample analysis
program.