My IH mill

[Ken_Shea]

Looking good Chris,

I have no experience with mist coolant/lube but I t does sound like it could be messy, and unhealthy, why not just use flood. I had a drawer attached under the splash enclosure on my mill and things in it did not get at all dusty or dirty, but I only use flood. I have since put it under a roll around cart but just for convenience sake. My machine is an open type and the splash guard enclosure was attached to the table so while machining it was constantly on the move

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metalchipper,
CAD/CAM programs are so complex and asked to do everything imaginable by it's users, so I cannot imagine using a system that will not require support from time to time, more often then not is is as EDIT: CHris indicated and we are just not doing things at it requires nor accustomed to these requirements. When needed support is top shelf, and the more you use it the less you will need support, but is is nice to know that it is available, seems like someone is on the OneCNC private forum all the time to kick in help if needed.

[ChrisJ]

Ken,

That's the plan all the way, flood coolant. Mike referred to the mist and the swarf, I just assumed that this occurs with flood coolant.

I temporarily need to located the mill in my basement until I can bring a subpanel to my detached garage. Plus the concrete on the garage floor really needs to be broken, removed and repoured. It is in horrible shape. House was built in 1935. I guess they sparringly used concrete in those days, since both my basement slab and the garage slab can't be much thicker than a couple inches. It is a skin coat at best. Provided I can keep the coolant tank from smelling and all, I think it will be a healthier way to go than the mist systems. I figure if bacteria become stubborn buggers to keep out of my tank, I will attack it with some ozone every now and then, since I have a portable ozone unit.
Aaron from IH easily convinced me that flood was the way to go. I hope to cut S.S. a lot and from what I hear you have to have flood. Hope the mill can handle cutting S.S. without it taking all day to make some cuts.

Regards,
Chris

[Ken_Shea]

House was built in 1935
So you have one of those new houses
The main portion of our house was originally built in 1817, completely gutted it including the stone earth basement walls, dug deeper along with jacking up the house to get a basement. Man, I will never do that job again. Found one lousy 1969 dime while gutting and re-modeling it

Try some of this when you get to purchasing coolant, Dave from the OneCNC forum turned us onto it after he remarked how well he liked it, no odor at all so far, I am really pleased over the previous synthetic I used.

http://www.synlube-mi.com/

[ChrisJ]

Ken,

You sure have me beat when it comes to the age of a house.

I did a little expansion myself which started (and hasn't ended) about 7 years ago. I expanded my house from the original 1100 sf to around 2800 sf. An add a level and an addition. My wife is still up my _ss with all the odds and ends that remain to be finished. Now I am picking up a CNC machining hobby! I bet you her eyes never rolled so far back in her head when she heard my plans.

I must of read Dave's post here on the forum because I followed someones advise which recommended Synlube. I purchased a couple gallons of Universal Plus (full synthetic) from Synlube. Is this the particular one that you are using?

Chris

[Ken_Shea]

Yeah I know, they never get done once you move into them I did ours almost 20 years ago and there is still things un-finished, it had been tastefully and substantially added onto in 1950 so I escaped adding any square feet, but nothing was left untouched. The wife to this day has not a clue the thought or effort involved in that task, her part of the job was picking out the paint color and carpet etc. When she even starts on something I use two words
"SHUT UP"

Yes, the Universal is what I was referring to, I think you will really like it.