On Wednesday 13 February 2019 05:41:38 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 13 February 2019 03:46:53 Les Newell wrote: > > I recently made a couple of coolant units based on eBay mister heads > > like this one > > <https://www.ebay.com/itm/Mist-Coolant-Lubrication-System-Spray-for- > >8m m-Air-Pipe-CNC-Lathe-Milling-Machine/172271983174?>. These ones > > with the straight end on the nozzle seem to be better quality than > > the ones with a nozzle that just tapers down to a blunt point. The > > problem with all of these eBay misters is that they generate a fine > > mist, which gets everywhere. I made some modifications on mine to > > work around the problem. The air jet in the model I linked above is > > just over 2mm diameter. I extended the oil jet using 2mm stainless > > tube so it now sticks out about 1.5" past the end of the brass > > nozzle. This leaves a thin annular gap for the air to get out. As > > the area of the air jet is now very small you can run quite high > > pressure (60 - 100 psi) with very low flow. By the time the air > > reaches the end of the oil jet it has slowed down a lot and no > > longer has the energy to break the oil into a fine mist. You end up > > with a column of air carrying a stream of droplets in the middle. On > > alu oil consumption is minimal. I use a neat cutting oil and my > > previous tank was the filter bowl on an air regulator. That was > > enough for several days of machining. > > > > One down side of this setup is that it won't suck the coolant up > > from the tank. I used a filter canister as my reservoir. Shop air is > > supplied at full pressure to the nozzle through a solenoid valve. > > There is a tee in the line which feeds a regulator to drop the > > pressure to ~10 psi for the reservoir. Theoretically those filter > > canisters can take 100psi but that sort of pressure in a plastic > > tank scares me. > > > > By the way Gene, if you are buying a solenoid valve from eBay, get > > an Airtac valve. They are available in a wide range of voltages and > > configurations. They are reasonably well made and can handle 100% > > duty cycle. > > > > Les > I found a 12 volt 1/4" version, but what the heck is Operating pressure 0.15~0.8MPa supposed to tell me??? Need a translation from chinglish please. I haven't a clue what the heck 0.8MPa means.
> So I probably bought the wrong one. Expertise comes from the > experience of doing it wrong. :) > > > On 13/02/2019 01:31, Phillip Carter wrote: > > > I use a water filter canister similar to this: > > > https://www.cnczone.com/forums/uncategorised-metalworking-machines > > >/1 02934-built-fog-less-coolant-mister.html > > > <https://www.cnczone.com/forums/uncategorised-metalworking-machine > > >s/ 102934-built-fog-less-coolant-mister.html> > > > > > > Cheers, Phill > > Cheers, Gene Heskett 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> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
