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Antifriction Agents & Lubricants

WACKER offers an extensive range of silicone-based products for use as antifriction agents and lubricants, including methyl silicone fluids, phenylmethyl silicone fluids and ready-to-use silicone pastes. Specialty grades can be made to order.

Benefits:

  • Low toxicity
  • High water repellency
  • High compressive strength
  • Extreme resistancy to heat and radiation

Applications:

  • Bearings and transmission made from pure or reinforced polymers
  • Lubricants for natural and synthetic rubber
  • PVC
  • Polystyrene
  • Sewing thread

Benefits:

  • Very heat stable
  • Suitable for very high and very low temperatures

Applications:

  • Heat-transfer fluids
  • Pressure-transfer media
  • Lubricants for a variety of applications, especially in the nautical, meteorological and aerospace sectors

Benefits:

  • High chemical resistance
  • Virtually constant consistency despite temperature changes
  • High water repellency
  • Good antifriction properties
  • High breakdown strength
  • Resistance to microorganisms
  • Low loss factor

Applications:

  • Antifriction agents for organic elastomers
  • Lubricants for traditional applications and for complex structural elements
  • Plastic / plastic and plastic / metal pairings

Product Recommendations

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Products
Technical data
Appearance Viscosity, kinematic Refractive index Melting point
WACKER® 50550/8 VP waxy waxy - - - - approx. 30 °C approx. 86.0 °F
WACKER® AKF 100 - - - - - - - -
WACKER® AKF 1000 - - - - - - - -
WACKER® AKF 10000 clear, colorless clear, colorless - - - - - -
WACKER® AKF 300 - - - - - - - -
WACKER® AP 100 clear, colorless clear, colorless - - approx. 1.50[1] approx. 1.50[1] - -
WACKER® AP 1000 clear, colorless clear, colorless 900 - 1100 mm²/s[4] 900 - 1100 mm²/s[4] 1.5000 - 1.5150[2] 1.5000 - 1.5150[2] - -
WACKER® AP 150 clear, colorless clear, colorless - - approx. 1.51[1] approx. 1.51[1] - -
WACKER® AP 200 clear, colorless clear, colorless - - approx. 1.50[3] approx. 1.50[3] - -
WACKER® AP 500 clear, colorless clear, colorless - - approx. 1.51[1] approx. 1.51[1] - -
WACKER® AP 500 STAB clear, brown clear, brown - - - - - -
WACKER® AR 200 clear, colorless clear, colorless - - approx. 1.45[2] approx. 1.45[2] - -
WACKER® AS 100 clear, colorless clear, colorless - - 1.42[2] 1.42[2] - -
WACKER® GM 196 clear to slightly turbid, colorless to brownish clear to slightly turbid, colorless to brownish - - 1.4865 - 1.4930[2] 1.4865 - 1.4930[2] - -
WACKER® TN clear, colorless clear, colorless 1000 - 1600 mm²/s[5] 1000 - 1600 mm²/s[5] 1.4620 - 1.4650[2] 1.4620 - 1.4650[2] - -
WACKER® W 23 white, wax-like white, wax-like - - - - 39.0 - 45.0 °C 102.2 - 113 °F
WACKER® W 27 solid wax solid wax - - - - 70 °C 158 °F
Legend
[1] Refractive index | 25.0 °C | DIN 51423,  [2] Refractive index | 25 °C | DIN 51423,  [3] Refractive index | DIN 51423,  [4] Viscosity, kinematic | 25 °C | DIN 51562-1 ,  [5] Viscosity, kinematic | 25 °C | DIN 53019,  [] Suited,  [] Well suited,  [] Ideally suited