On Friday 15 July 2016 13:49:11 Leonardo Marsaglia wrote: > 2016-07-14 15:06 GMT-03:00 dave <[email protected]>: > > I'm trying to bring my Mazak V5 back online. > > Is usual practice to blow the cooling air up thru the unit or suck > > it down and out? > > Both ends have gravel strainers (:-)) on them so that is no help. > > TIA > > Hello Dave. > > Our lathe has the cooling fans mounted on the upper side sucking the > air out, and on the bottom side there are input grids with filters so > the dirt gets trapped there.
I would rig some sort of a swarf umbrella over the exhaust to keep swarf from falling in when cleaning up with an air hose. A tin tipi from a chick self feeder comes to mind. Or the cap on the roof for a gas fired hot water heater vent. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity planning reports.http://sdm.link/zohodev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
