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This episode is your complete Whitmore Paragon gear oils guide — covering every variant in the Paragon family of heavy-duty enclosed gear oils built for the punishment of surface mining, mineral processing, and industrial drive systems running under shock loads, reversing motion, and extreme pressure.
Standard Whitmore Paragon Enclosed Gear Oil meets DIN 51517-3 and spans ten viscosity grades from ISO 68 (AGMA 2 EP) to ISO 1500 (AGMA 9 EP). The tacky film chemistry clings to metal during shutdowns, eliminating dry-start wear. The Four Ball Wear scar is just 0.40 mm across all grades, the Four Ball EP weld point hits 500 kg, and FZG test results clear stage 12 and above on ISO grades 220 through 1500. Paragon ISO 220 carries a kinematic viscosity of ...