I know, I’m very surprised just how much the mist helped. But you and a couple others have all said flood is even better. I want to “float” the machines chip pan at an angle with epoxy of some sort, so the coolant will atleast all flow to the drain. Right now it’s just flat, and when I got the machine the coolant dried up like grease and it caused quite a bit of corrosion. I will have weeks where I don’t use the machine, and don’t want to have to clean that stuff everytime.
@@mwmxcnc Ouch, that sounds like a mess. I ran flood briefly on my PCNC1100. Every time I was done for the day I'd use the air gun to blow all the coolant over to the drain to avoid that problem. Wasn't perfect but it worked. But flood was such a game changer. I broke a TON of end mills and was always babying them to avoid breakage. Especially slotting, which was always problematic. I had one part with a 1/8" wide slot that had to be machined 5/8" deep. When I ditched the fogbuster and went with flood, I could run that same toolpath in 1/5th the time without breaking end mills. That sealed it for me. I went on to develop some custom coolant manifolds and redo the coolant system on my 1100MX and as a result got a LOT of production from that machine. Good luck and keep making the videos!
@ sure. It is and it isn’t. I suppose if you have enough pressure it can be. But for long chips from an end mill down in a pocket or even on the outside the chips pile up and you have to blow it off every now and then.
Flood coolant is your friend. It’s a messy, annoying, frustrating but AWESOME friend. If you switch you’ll look back and wish you had switched sooner.
I know, I’m very surprised just how much the mist helped. But you and a couple others have all said flood is even better. I want to “float” the machines chip pan at an angle with epoxy of some sort, so the coolant will atleast all flow to the drain. Right now it’s just flat, and when I got the machine the coolant dried up like grease and it caused quite a bit of corrosion. I will have weeks where I don’t use the machine, and don’t want to have to clean that stuff everytime.
@@mwmxcnc Ouch, that sounds like a mess. I ran flood briefly on my PCNC1100. Every time I was done for the day I'd use the air gun to blow all the coolant over to the drain to avoid that problem. Wasn't perfect but it worked. But flood was such a game changer. I broke a TON of end mills and was always babying them to avoid breakage. Especially slotting, which was always problematic. I had one part with a 1/8" wide slot that had to be machined 5/8" deep. When I ditched the fogbuster and went with flood, I could run that same toolpath in 1/5th the time without breaking end mills. That sealed it for me. I went on to develop some custom coolant manifolds and redo the coolant system on my 1100MX and as a result got a LOT of production from that machine.
Good luck and keep making the videos!
The problem with flood coolant is chip evacuation.
@ I’d love to hear more about what you mean. For me, I’d say the solution to chip evacuation is flood coolant. ;)
@ sure. It is and it isn’t. I suppose if you have enough pressure it can be. But for long chips from an end mill down in a pocket or even on the outside the chips pile up and you have to blow it off every now and then.
Better to re probe spindle nose then to crash machine. It’s just a safety feature. The only way I know of is to leave the machine on.
Yeah that’s what I figured, now that I have done it a few times, and have the process memorized, it’s not such a big deal.