I love the mill, love the operating system, but I could not stand how bad coolant went everywhere. All over the walls and the floor...It was a total mess. So, some good friends and I brainstormed. On the HAAS TM-1, the left side coolant catch panel was not long enough to clear the X-axis home position. So instead of mickey-mousing some extension setup, we decided to make a whole new panel. We fabricated the catch pan making it 3 inches longer than the standard panel, sanded all rough edges, and got some paint that matched perfectly and started paintin. That extra 3 inches of clearance made it possible to box in the X-axis without cutting a hole in the side like other home-built enclosures that I have seen.
We cut out diamond plate to fit all sides and made sure everything was gonna line up. Then, again, we rounded off all sharp edges and put a couple bends here and there for appearance, strength, and clearance. Everything clears and so far all coolant is staying in the machine.
A good friend constructed a front flip-door out of smoked plexiglass that would prevent heavy splashing from coolant hitting the center-bottom pathway. I put the door on hinges so I can clean out chips once they build up. And, last but not least, we cut out a final piece of diamond plate with an acute angle on top that slides in and out the front of the machine just as a "secondary block-out" incase the coolant really starts to flow.
Below are a few pictures I snapped with a cell phone. I apologize for the poor quality of the pictures, but I'm pretty sure you can get an idea of what was done here! Hope this setup helps somebody out there.