Grease wear resistance

A method for evaluating wear resistance and its effects on a grease or another organic paste product, which comprises carrying out the following steps, which are not necessarily conducted in series:

• providing a modified falex pin and vee block device so as to further include a grease wear test device, the grease wear test device including:
• a body in a form of a collar having an outer surface, a first side and an opposing second side;
• the first and second sides being open so as to form a hollow, open channel through the body having a center axis, into which opposing vee blocks can be inserted;
• and
• perpendicular to the center axis, a pair of opposing holes through and open to the outer surface of the body and the cylindrical inside wall, through which a cylindrical test journal (falex pin) can be inserted for contact in general with opposing vee-shaped channels of the inserted, opposing vee blocks, and for rotation during testing—
• wherein the modified falex pin and vee block device can receive and contain a small sample of grease or another organic paste product such that grease or other organic paste product from the small sample may contact the opposing vee-shaped channels of the inserted, opposing vee blocks, and the cylindrical test journal during the testing, with containment of the small sample provided through employment of the grease wear test device;
• assembling the modified falex pin and vee block device to include the grease wear test device, and providing the small sample of grease or other organic paste product thereto such that the small sample is received and contained thereby as aforesaid;
• attaching the modified falex pin and vee block device with the small sample to a falex pin and vee block test machine;
• and
• actuating the test machine with rotation of the falex pin to conduct the testing.