Originally Posted by
handlewanker
Yikes!!!.....hydro chloric bad stuff.......definitely don't want to mess with that.
The brand name Drano I mentioned is probably the stuff I heard of on here somewhere.......the brand name back in South Africa escapes me, but it's sold in shops in a brown bottle to clean out drains and goes milky when added to water....also has a carbolic smell to it.
About the pale green coolant.........if it' rusts the machine parts like you say, that's bad news..... strange, because we used it, or something like it on our grinders and also a mill without problems.........I have a link on my favourites list for some stuff that is sold in Canada and costs about US$25 a litre.....I'll have to look up our local lube dealer to see if they sell something like it too.
It's academic really, as I won't be using flood cooling or have a sump on my mill, so no mass storage to worry about.......I'll be using something that, if I can find it, will be stored in a container for mist cooling and will probably, after wipe down, evaporate from the machine surfaces over time.
Here's a pic of the stuff sold in Canada called GREENCUT MISTING/CUTTING FLUID.
Ian.