DickDastardly40
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As coolant is not often needed for ME work, I have been loathe to spend any money on it. I do however always use coolant for drilling and parting (opinions on this vary).
I've gone rather low tech with my suds set up; I have a 2 litre plastic bottle inverted hung from the rafter above the lathe. I have made 2 fittings from brass to attach tubing to, one fits to the bottom of the bottle which has a shot length of tube and a fish tank non return valve, the second fits to the lid for the feed to the tool. The pipe is 6mm obtainable from DIY and fish stores.
The flow is adjusted by a small valve, again from a fish tank. I have considered fitting a bulb type squeezer for extra flow if required but so far it has not been necessary.
Returns are back into a tub from the lathe bed and it is filtered before return to the bottle.
The set up can be moved easily to my small mill if required. So far works well and no leaks. Apologies for the rather crap phone camera pics!
Al
I've gone rather low tech with my suds set up; I have a 2 litre plastic bottle inverted hung from the rafter above the lathe. I have made 2 fittings from brass to attach tubing to, one fits to the bottom of the bottle which has a shot length of tube and a fish tank non return valve, the second fits to the lid for the feed to the tool. The pipe is 6mm obtainable from DIY and fish stores.
The flow is adjusted by a small valve, again from a fish tank. I have considered fitting a bulb type squeezer for extra flow if required but so far it has not been necessary.
Returns are back into a tub from the lathe bed and it is filtered before return to the bottle.
The set up can be moved easily to my small mill if required. So far works well and no leaks. Apologies for the rather crap phone camera pics!
Al
