Hydraulic accessories help monitor system performance, optimize filter service cycles, and prevent reservoir contamination—keeping hydraulic systems operating efficiently, maximizing uptime, and reducing maintenance costs.

Filter Service Indicators

Visual, visual/electrical, and fully electrical indicators and pressure gauges are all available to help you maintain, analyse, and optimize system performance, reducing system downtime. 

Features

  • Electrical Service Indicators
  • Visual/Electrical Service Indicator Kits
  • Visual Pressure Gauges

Benefits

  • Maximized filter life
  • Minimize downtime
  • Wide variety of options to fit application requirements

TRAP Breather

T.R.A.P. (Thermally Reactive Advanced Protection) breathers provide fast-acting protection against airborne moisture and particulate contamination. T.R.A.P technology strips moisture vapor from intake air and expels the moisture back to the atmosphere. Moisture is prevented from entering and is actively removed  out with each flow cycle. The media regenerates its water-holding capacity, which leads to longer service life – 3 to 4 times the life of conventional desiccant breathers.

Features

  • Filter out solid particulate down to 3 microns at 97% efficiency
  • Prevent moisture from entering the reservoir.
  • Regenerative water-holding capacity 
  • Moisture removal: reversible adsorption
  • Strips moisture vapor from intake air and expels the moisture back to the atmosphere

Benefits

  • Provide fast-acting protection for hydraulic reservoirs against airborne moisture and particulate contamination
  • Electronic indicator actuated by pressure differential, flashes red to indicate a changeout is needed
  • Mechanical indicator kits: a highly visible, bright red band shows when the restriction limit is reached
  • Oil splash and mist containment keep oil inside the reservoir
  • Easy to install, simply hand-tighten
  • Lightweight, rugged design with a robust housing that protects the media.

Applications

  • Designed for both mobile and stationary reservoir breather applications

Strainers, Diffusers, Breathers

Reservoir protection is a team effort. Suction strainers protect pumps from damage. Diffusers reduce aeration, foaming, turbulence, and noise caused by return lines. Sight and level gauges offer an inside view of fluid levels. Plugs, caps, and vents can be used with power units and gearboxes. Fillers/breathers give you access in – while keeping contaminants out – as reservoirs cycle through fluid level changes.

Suction Strainers

Our suction strainers are zinc-plated, with stainless steel mesh screens and rugged steel core centers epoxy bonded to heavy gauge connector and end caps. Suction strainers filter petroleum-based hydraulic fluids, phosphate esters, water glycols, lubricating oils, coolants, and fuels in fluid reservoirs, sumps, and similar applications. They are cleanable and reusable. 

  • Rugged, durable construction
  • Filters petroleum-based hydraulic fluids, phosphate esters, water glycols, lubricating oils, coolants, fuels, and water in fluid reservoirs, sumps, and similar applications

Tank Mounted Strainers

You can mount these units through a sidewall or through the tank top and into a standpipe. Tank-mounted strainers offer easy installation.

  • Rugged, durable construction
  • Easy installation
  • Access to the reservoir interior is not needed
  • Can mount units through a sidewall or through the tank top and into a standpipe

Diffusers

Diffusers are highly effective in reducing aeration, foaming, turbulence, and noise caused by return lines. Reservoir baffles can usually be eliminated, provided that the holes in the tube are positioned facing away from the pump suction inlet and below the reservoir oil level. Can be vertically or horizontally mounted with discharge side directed away from suction and preferably toward a tank wall or bottom.

Breathers

Breathers are available in a variety of styles, materials, and sizes. They provide clean airflow into reservoirs and other storage containers where there is an exchange of air during changing fluid levels. In high moisture sites or applications with large changes in machine environments, breather caps with pressure relief and vacuum breakers limit air exchange and provide a positive suction head at the pump inlet.