Originally Posted by carbidecraters  That spindle fan idea is atrocious |
How so? Ive seen them used quite successfully on a few vertical mills. They clean off excess coolant in production work.
Load the fan, spin it up, move down, move across the table a few times to blow off all the coolant, up, stop, change pallets. Enclosed machines only of course.
Oh and in 'industry' for cleaning your machine, you dont
The chip conveyor takes care of most the swarf, what remains in the mill remains untill you are done with that setup. Hose it down with the coolant hose, get most the chips and clean off the table for the next guy setting up. As long as you are using a coolant that leaves a film of oil when it evaporates you should be good to go.