Kramer telescopic boom

[hally]

Just greasing up my Kramer and noticed the boom looks a little dry. What is the best product for lubricating these telescopic booms?

 

[Barleycorn]

JCB used to recommend Waxioil.

 

[hally]

JCB used to recommend Waxioil.

Is that the same as waxoyl?

 

[ACEngineering]

Just greasing up my Kramer and noticed the boom looks a little dry. What is the best product for lubricating these telescopic booms?

Nothing leave it dry.
Or spray it with dry graphite.

100% not waxoil I dont give a dam what jcb say it's wrong.

 

[steveR]

Just greasing up my Kramer and noticed the boom looks a little dry. What is the best product for lubricating these telescopic booms?

When I moved (back) to a telescopic handler (Kramer 750T), I asked my Kramer guru, and he suggested a smear of oil if I wanted, but not to bother in all honesty... So I don't!

 

[Lofty1984]

Nothing leave it dry.
Or spray it with dry graphite.

100% not waxoil I dont give a dam what jcb say it's wrong.

Why out of interest?

 

[hally]

Leaving it alone seems to be the most cost effective solution

 

[hally]

Nothing leave it dry.
Or spray it with dry graphite.

100% not waxoil I dont give a dam what jcb say it's wrong.

Just off on a slight tangent that starter motor I got from you for my little Claas is brilliant, it’s never started when below freezing for 10 years, this morning -6 and it started instantly. Well impressed

 

[ACEngineering]

Why out of interest?

Wax oil is an adhesive and causes drag.

Increases the force required to boom in and out and puts extra stress on the wear pad fixings sometimes ripping them out.

Some machines if wax oiled you boom out with a load on they wont pull themselves back in!

Plastic pads on polished steel slide just fine, even better with graphite,

If it's a machine not regularly in use then a light grease now and then or graphite spray will be needed to stop it rusting.

 

[ACEngineering]

Just off on a slight tangent that starter motor I got from you for my little Claas is brilliant, it’s never started when below freezing for 10 years, this morning -6 and it started instantly. Well impressed

Great

 

[Sparkplug]

Always a difficult one as too dry a boom causes vibration which encourages Wear Pad Bolts to vibrate loose which is why you can always find the missing Shims on top of the chassis under the rear of the boom!

 

[ollie989898]

Nothing leave it dry.
Or spray it with dry graphite.

100% not waxoil I dont give a dam what jcb say it's wrong.

You learn something new everyday. My immediate gut thought was to use waxoyl but I noticed on some newer machines the plastic pads (I assume nylon or similar) just slide along lovely on the polished parts of the inner boom. Is a pump or two grease ample for these?

 

[Agri Spec Solicitor]

We were advised to use the waxoyl type product on our JCB. The aerosol can does not go far. I think I will try the graphite. Grease was my choice on our old Claas and I ended up with a big build up of straw / muck/ stone gunge which then had to be cleaned up. Never again.

 

[ACEngineering]

You learn something new everyday. My immediate gut thought was to use waxoyl but I noticed on some newer machines the plastic pads (I assume nylon or similar) just slide along lovely on the polished parts of the inner boom. Is a pump or two grease ample for these?

a little grease or engine oil is fine, just gets messy.

99.9% of people that grease or put anything on there booms are only doing half of it anyway! Rarely does anyone get up the back and do the inside were the rear pads are and they never seem to last any less than the fronts IMO.

 

[ACEngineering]

We were advised to use the waxoyl type product on our JCB. The aerosol can does not go far. I think I will try the graphite. Grease was my choice on our old Claas and I ended up with a big build up of straw / muck/ stone gunge which then had to be cleaned up. Never again.

try this little test, spray some wax oil on a bit of clean polished steel, let it dry and get a bit of nylon pad of some sort, any old bit of plastic nylon will do although ideally with a nice flat surface to simulate a wear pad.

Press it down on to a clean bit of steel and drag it along, then press it down on the wax oiled steel and drag it. You will then see/feel what i mean by more drag.