Outside of tooling and materials, the most important inventory item for a machine shop is machine coolants. As the label implies, coolants are responsible for maintaining equipment within an optimal ...

Minimum quantity economically reasonable alternative wet machining. It's common practice in manufacturing to rely on coolants to keep the machine, cutting tools, and workpieces thermally stable and ...

The two main functions of metalworking coolants are to cool the tool and reduce friction in the cut. Also important, are clearing of chips, inhibiting corrosion, providing biostability and providing ...

A good grinding operation will still dump huge amounts of oil and grease into the sump. We ran a test on a high production machine. In twenty two days of double shift we pulled out about ten pounds of ...

[Peter] is back at it, again modding his CNC3020 router. This time he’s adding a coolant system and spindle direction control. If you have ever tried cutting plexiglass using a mill, router or even a ...

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A technician with Polaris Labs pulls a sample of extended life coolant for testing. ELC should be monitored as closely as conventional coolants since some mechanical malfunctions in equipment can ...

Kennametal’s KCU25B tooling proved durable enough for turn-peeling a lengthy austenitic stainless steel 1.4435 rotor while reducing cycle times.