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I bought a Masons brush that I am sweeping off the table with, seems to work well.
I bought a plumbing part that fits the spindle, I had to bore it about .020 to get clearance on the spindle, the oring I had in the junk box, the idea is to keep the coolant off the shielded lower spindle bearing - work in progress. (tape is temporary)
I made a little "Hoe" configuration to clean out the main drain channels, seems to work well.
I pushed vinyl tubing into the table slots to keep the swarf out as its a bear to clean the slots, I could only buy 3/4" in the flexible tube, the 1" size had a heavier wall and I couldnt squeeze it enough to get it into the slots so I used 3/4 tube with a 3/8 spacer in the bottom of the slot, makes the table cleaning much easier.
I plan to buy a stick of 1 x .625 rectangular aluminum stock just to lay in the channels, I think it would work somewhat better as the top of it would be flush with the table.
The table drains all run back directly into the Tormach screen catcher, I replaced the aluminum screen with a stainless one, reason being is that the coolant ate holes in the aluminum one for some reason?? This also keeps 90 percent of the way oil etc out of the coolant and I dont have to add water nearly as often as the evaporation is much less.
For the parts I make this all works fine, for me half the fun in owning this mchine is modifying it ha!
Now if I could just make Mach 3 and the computer bullet proof...........
Screwy ideas maybe but it will give the guys on the forum something to read and a pic or two to look at......
I bought a Masons brush that I am sweeping off the table with, seems to work well.
I bought a plumbing part that fits the spindle, I had to bore it about .020 to get clearance on the spindle, the oring I had in the junk box, the idea is to keep the coolant off the shielded lower spindle bearing - work in progress. (tape is temporary)
I made a little "Hoe" configuration to clean out the main drain channels, seems to work well.
I pushed vinyl tubing into the table slots to keep the swarf out as its a bear to clean the slots, I could only buy 3/4" in the flexible tube, the 1" size had a heavier wall and I couldnt squeeze it enough to get it into the slots so I used 3/4 tube with a 3/8 spacer in the bottom of the slot, makes the table cleaning much easier.
I plan to buy a stick of 1 x .625 rectangular aluminum stock just to lay in the channels, I think it would work somewhat better as the top of it would be flush with the table.
The table drains all run back directly into the Tormach screen catcher, I replaced the aluminum screen with a stainless one, reason being is that the coolant ate holes in the aluminum one for some reason?? This also keeps 90 percent of the way oil etc out of the coolant and I dont have to add water nearly as often as the evaporation is much less.
For the parts I make this all works fine, for me half the fun in owning this mchine is modifying it ha!
Now if I could just make Mach 3 and the computer bullet proof...........
Screwy ideas maybe but it will give the guys on the forum something to read and a pic or two to look at......