What's the lifetime of a camloc gas spring |

The lifetime is application dependent, it depends of the temperature, corrosive atmosphere, any water or humidity in the surroundings of the gas spring. A reduced lifetime is however in 95% caused by operation abuse: we see then damaged gas springs due to side load, or gas springs that have been in an environment of oil and dust. (please consider the use of a protective shroud) Having said the above we express the lifetime of a camloc gas spring in cycles: all camloc gas springs are tested up to 30000 cycles. They however can go up to 50000 cycles. stainless steel camloc gas springs perform better: up to 100000 cycles, this is due to marine quality stainles steel 316L used. (The rod even has a chrome plating) ; leading to a corrosion resitance of 1000 hours salt spray test. typically after 15 years your gas spring should be still functional. If failure, typically people see a reduced force due to leakige of oil & gas out of the gas spring. Standard Camloc gas springs have a corrosion resistance of 72 hours. a further improvement of corrosion resistance is difficult as it is a nitride coating. This coating is specifically good for the seal, if you change to another coating then the seal would wear off too quickly reducing the amount of cycles of the gas spring. if available, please provide to us the 6 digit number, of which we can identify the week and year code. So we can verify when it was manufactured. Any warranty needs to go through the OEM who originally installed the gas springs. (this one is manufactured in week 40 of the year 1995)