- Feb 10, 2006
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hydraulic oil cooler for splitter?
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LLigetfa
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My oil has never gotten hot enough to worry about cooling. The large tank does a good enough job cooling the oil.
I've never noticed my splitter getting hot.
If the heat was a problem, I'm sure we would have read about it here. There is too large of a group of woodburners here to have a problem like that go unmentioned.
Matt
If the heat was a problem, I'm sure we would have read about it here. There is too large of a group of woodburners here to have a problem like that go unmentioned.
Matt
What is 'hot'? 125 F is perfect, quite cool, yet hot enough to drive off moisture. 140 F is fine for oil. 160 F not so good, but common in industrial settings.
Logsplitters should be very cool.
excess heat means you have as problem. Oil is going across a large pressure drop without doing work. i.e. a leak, piston seals, restricted lines, or too much time holding the lever with cylinder stalled and sending oil across the relief valve.
Add a pressure gauge out of the pump or at P inlet to the manual valve and we can help you diagnose it.
kcj
Logsplitters should be very cool.
excess heat means you have as problem. Oil is going across a large pressure drop without doing work. i.e. a leak, piston seals, restricted lines, or too much time holding the lever with cylinder stalled and sending oil across the relief valve.
Add a pressure gauge out of the pump or at P inlet to the manual valve and we can help you diagnose it.
kcj
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