I ignored the oil sampling trend for 6 years, then it caught a failing bearing at 11,000 hours

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620 bucks a sample kit would've caught it at 5,000 hours, but nobody ever talks about the cost of downtime when that bearing finally lets go mid operation. That's the real number that matters. Did you get any warning signs in vibration analysis before the oil showed it?

the_lee1mo ago

Honestly the real warning was probably the recent downtime history nobody audits.