Causes of Screen Failure
The causes of premature screen failure are:
- Mishandling of screen panels during storage
- Improper handling during installation
- Improper installation of shaker screen to shaker basket
- Over/Under tensioning
- Dirty, worn or improperly installed deck rubbers
- Improper cleaning of the screens while in storage
- Extremely high mud weight
- Heavy solids loading
- Improperly manufactured screens
- Use of high pressure wash guns to clean or un-blind screens
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Famous quotes containing the words screen and/or failure:
“The End?”
—Theodore Simonson. Irvin S. Yeaworth, Jr.. End title card, The Blob, printed on screen at the end of the movie (1958)
“What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.”
—Donn Pearce, U.S. screenwriter, Frank R. Pierson, and Stuart Rosenberg. Captain (Strother Martin)