I was really surprised with the amount of chips piled up under my y-axis billows. I bet in the back area some spots reached 4” high! I do use my mill daily and filled up a few garbage cans with chips in the past few months so I guess that would do it.
I am thinking of getting some sheet metal and blocking off that little area under the mill on the left and right of the mill. To ensure the coolant can drain on the right I will create another drain like the factory one on the left. I already put a shower drain in the catch basin replacing the Tormach default tiny hole. I am thinking that should work on the right installed directly in the stand with some screen and have a drain pipe connecting the right to the left?
Even if I kept things really clean with the currents gaps under the mill the flow from right to left is not good at all. So I wanted to do something before seeing all the chip build up under the billows. So now i will get this going.
Has anybody done anything like this? Suggestions?
Craig
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