[handlewanker]

oops, double post....deleted.

[hjl4]

handlewanker, flood coolant with enough pressure does clear the chips away just like an air blast. The issue is the potential of it getting all over the place(free shower).LOL
With flood cooling, you need an enclosed machine or you get it all over the place. Mist has the advantage of using very little coolant and an air blast to clear the chips. At least that's how I see it.

[handlewanker]

Hi I'm very well aware of the ability of chips to get into every place you can think of, but as most CNC set-ups have a cabinet enclosure, air blast or flood coolant is a matter of preference.

Normal or manual milling does not use any air blast to remove the chips and most time only a moderate amount of flood coolant which by it's name indicates that it's a flood as opposed to a blast, and all manual mills that were around before CNC (and exist now) did not have cabinet enclosures in any form whatsoever.

I'm hoping that the high pressure atomisation of the coolant into droplets will do a cooling and lubricating function, but as to an air blast for chip removal, that suggests a compressor cycling on and off at a monotonous rate that would drive me to drink.......there has to be a better way.
Ian.

[eichen]

Inspired by this thread, I built a mister that only uses pre-made parts, a soldering iron, and a drill press. Instructions and parts are listed here.

https://sites.google.com/view/soluti...ter?authuser=0

Hopefully this may be helpful to others that do not have access / or the knowledge to make parts requiring multiple axis parts and threads for which I did not have the dies.

Thanks for all the very useful info found on previous threads, e.g. with regards to length and diameters for the mister.