Hello everyone, I hope you guys can help me with this.

We have an IEMCA bar feeder, with a Hyundai turning center. The parts that we run, range in length from 8" long to 72" long and from 20mm OD to 40mm OD.

The problem is that when we run long parts, we transfer a lot of the oil from the bar feeder right into our lathe and into the coolant. On the last job, we ran 5 parts 48" long, and it totally ruined my coolant. I mean our coolant went from nice and clean to filled with oil in 20 minutes. We have put a skimmer on the tank, and it does a good job when we run the short parts, but after running a few long parts, it takes a full day of skimming before the coolant tank looks decent.

An other issue is that we have to refill our bar feeder with costly oil, more often then I care to.

I am wondering if anyone as run into this kind of issue before and if there is anything out there that can wipe the oil off the bar before it exits the bar feeder?

Thank you in advance for you input.

Steve