Fanuc Grease Change Question

Hello all,

We've just completed a grease change on a group of 4 ArcMate 100ic's. We are currently preforming the procedure to release remaining pressure from the grease bath and have noticed that the outlet on Axis 1 have been pretty consistently spewing grease out for the entire 10 minutes we ran axis 1 60 degrees at 100% OVR.

Just wondering if this is normal?

It seems like a waste of grease, but as this is a used cell, I'm wondering if maybe the last group overfilled the grease, and even though we only added grease until clean grease was coming out of the outlet, the axis could be over filled and thats why we're seeing so much excess grease during this procedure.

If anyone has any more insight to this that'd be great. I'm not sure if we should keep running the releasing program until grease stops spewing, or if this is perfectly okay.

Thanks,

Quote from pdl

Keep running it until it stops spewing grease. Your guess about it not being done properly last time is probably correct.

It may seem wasteful, but VigoGrease is way cheaper than a reducer or the downtime that a replacement may cost.

thanks for this. I ran it about twice as long as it asked for and it stopped spewing. Sounds like everything else is good, and the other axes seem to be better.

Thanks again