Insane Hydraulics
Bold and audacious blog about fluid power
Greetings, friend, and welcome to a place where fluid power reason wages war against "hydraulic ignorance".
My name is Sergiy, and I do hydraulics for a living. Overhauls, diagnostics, maintenance, failure analysis, system design, sales - I do it all, and I enjoy it a lot.
I started my "oily" career back in 2001, when I, by sheer chance, took on a temporary job as a hand at a small hydraulic workshop in Lisbon with zero background knowledge and skill, and I've followed the trade ever since.
I have grown to love hydraulics for its versatility, nonstop challenges, and the imperative need for constant self-education, but I also discovered along the way that even though oil-hydraulics has become one of the most used industrial technologies, it is still frequently handled by "deaf-blind fiddlers" and/or "hard-headed know-it-alls" (maybe with a few rare exceptions).
Every day I come across equipment owners, mechanics, technicians, and even engineers, often with years of experience, who show themselves completely ignorant or, at best, misinformed about hydraulics they own, maintain, or try to repair, having fallen victim to popular misconceptions, blind tradition following, and industrial myths.
Opinion differences have always led to disputes among Homo Sapiens, and on that account a countless number of times over these years I've seen myself amidst a hopeless "clash of opinions" with my superiors/colleagues/clients/etc... always failing in my attempts to convince them of the most obvious stuff. I find it pointless and exhausting to go about filling cups that are already full, so instead of wasting my breath in arguments, I prefer spilling my thoughts and ideas in this blog.
I hope that this informal site is something more than just a collection of my "therapeutical writing", and that it will, at the very least, boost your motivation to learn more about hydraulics or provide you, as a hydraulic professional or a person who is somehow connected to hydraulic equipment, with a couple of useful tips.
Thanks for dropping by!