Originally Posted by Swiss  That's neat, but I guess it only works for dry chips?
How do people clean machines in the industry? Do they just spend half an hour carefully picking swarf out of every crevice? Hugo |
Do I qualify as 'industry', my shop has 16 machines
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We use the wash hose connected to a high flow coolant pump to wash chips down into the chip auger on the machines with augers. On the other machines chips are washed down into the bottom of the enclosure and dragged out with a scraper.
We don't make a point of washing them down every night or anything like that, just when needed. However often in the morning when the machines are warming up the operators will auger or scrape chips out into plastic bins and then dump them into the recycling bin. Also during the day if the chip volume is enough the operator will do this while a cycle is running.
The only time we clean things meticulously is when we go from steel to aluminum because our aluminum recycler doesn't like steel chips included.
Our coolant concentration is maintained high enough that we don't need to worry about rust.