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sbwhart:
Ha John


Your quite right  :doh: there's no fun in that at all, and you don't know where these things will lead it may give someone the idea to to use it some-ware else.  :thumbup:

Have
 :wave:
Fun

Darren:
I fancy some sort of coolant too. I notice esp with stainless things can really heat up when you are going for it making the sizes change somewhat when it cools down.
I've also had brass literally fracture when it gets really hot and you are stressing it with more cutting, particularly when drilling.

DickDastardly40:

--- Quote from: sbwhart on February 26, 2009, 05:06:17 PM ---One way to rig up a cheep coolant system is to use gravity, just hang a bottle of coolant up and lead a pipe from it to the job, your just using mother earths free energy.

--- End quote ---

That is what I do (hopefully not a thread hijack on only my 3rd posting):






All the piping and the valves are 6mm fishtank hose, I made the brass bottle reservoir fittings to suit. I have since the pics were taken acquired a 'new to me' 626 style mill and the pipe reaches that nicely so I can use the same setup on all my machines if required. I collect the returns into a container, strain and refill the reservoir. (If the pics don't show please say as I cannot view photobucket from work)

I was wondering about using an airbrush for light misting as I have a cheapie which came free with my compressor, though haven't got around to trying it yet. Does anybody have any thoughts on this?

Al

Darren:
That lathe is far too clean, come on, it shows us up  :lol:

Yes the pic's show, little fuzzy though but we get the drift.

Simple, cheap, and easy. Sounds just the ticket.... :thumbup:

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