by Danny Stephens | May 11, 2026 | Lubrication Fundamentals Series
Lubrication Fundamentals Series — Week 5 Pick up any bearing from your parts room and look at the race surface. It looks smooth. Polished, even. Under the right light it almost looks like a mirror. Now imagine putting that surface under an electron microscope. What...
by Danny Stephens | May 4, 2026 | Lubrication Fundamentals Series
Lubrication Fundamentals Series — Week 4 Ask a maintenance technician why we lubricate equipment and the answer is usually some version of “to keep things from breaking.” That is not wrong. But it is incomplete — and the gap between that answer and a full...
by Danny Stephens | Apr 27, 2026 | Lubrication Fundamentals Series
Lubrication Fundamentals Series — Week 3 Last week we established that 65% of equipment failures are caused by surface wear — and that the vast majority of those failures are preventable. This week we go one level deeper: not all wear is the same, and your equipment...
by Danny Stephens | Apr 22, 2026 | Lubrication Fundamentals Series
Lubrication Fundamentals Series — Week 2 Let me start with a number that I put in front of every room I teach. 80% of equipment failure is caused by surface degradation. Of that, 65% is wear-related — and the vast majority of it is preventable. When I say that out...
by Danny Stephens | Apr 20, 2026 | Lubrication Fundamentals Series
There is a conversation happening in maintenance shops and reliability departments across the country, and it goes something like this: “We keep replacing the same bearings. We keep seeing the same failures. We keep spending money on the same problems.”...
