Drill Coolant?

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Ricky D. Finch

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Hi
I use Cool Tool II when drill holes in the metal. I finish cleaning up my Drill press and vise tonight it was a mess. I was wondering if there is something that would work at drill holes, but not dry out like Cool Tool does. Any Ideals?

Thanks
Rick
 
Honestly, Try Crisco Shortening. We use it in our shop. we fill up a film cannister, and just plunge the drill bit in before drilling, It honestly works really well and Very Low Mess!
the only thing you gotta whatch out for it the occasional mouse getting in to it.

Jason
 
I've seen some that use Palmolive green dish washing soap. Supposed to have some fat in it naturally.
 
Rick, I buy these trigger type spray bottles from MSC:

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http://www1.mscdirect.com/CGI/NNSRIT?PMPXNO=1799282&PMT4NO=0


and place them around the shop on all of the machine tools like a drill press, milling machine, lathe, saws..etc. I fill them with my favorite water soluable metalworking fluid.

I give the workpiece a quick squirt or two as needed while machining.

-Rob
 
I like Trim Microsol 585. It it designed for titanium and cast iron, but works well for everything I've thrown at it. And it is funny - because the reason I selected it was for a production machining job milling tons of plastic and I chose it because it washes off the parts easy, and keeps the machine clean without spoiling like an old school water soluble oil or eating paint and rusting like a synthetic. I chose it because it is clean and doesn't make peoples skin get ickey - and the stuff ended up working better than our old stuff, so I changed everything over. I use it at 5%.
 
Not sure who makes it, but we use Liquid Ice. It's very clean, has a pleasant smell, won't peel paint and at 5% it does'nt leave much residue behind. For some reason it does'nt work well with reamers.
 
NASA uses water soluble floor wax/water mix. Won't burn, cools, lubricates and puts a rust proof coating on everything---I mean everything.

Jim Arbuckle
ABS JS
 
Ricky D. Finch said:
Rob

What is your favorite water soluable fluid?

Rick
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It is easy to get overwhelmed with all the choices of metal working fluids. We buy a product from a local supplier who custom blends.

For your shop, I would just buy a 1 gallon jug of any general purpose metal working fluid from MSC. You mix it with water...at about 10%...which means your 1 gallon jug will make 10 gallons of coolant/lubricant.

There are lots of nightmares with this stuff sitting in the sumps of machines for years. But in a small spray bottle, you'll never have any of those issues.

Synthetic? semi synthetic?, water soluable oil..? ...every manufacturer has their own marketing twist and "proprietary product". It is impaoosible to sort out the details.

The bottom line is that I feel that just about any "general purpose" fluid will go great for drilling holes by hand....and also for manual milling and even sawing when you need a little lube and coolant...just give it a squirt. For me, it makes a huge difference to use these products. When you are done machining, just wipe the work down with a rag like you normally do and carry on.


-Rob
 
Use to be you had to be specific in what you wanted the stuff to do. It was either a good lubricant but poor coolant or good coolant and poor lubricant. These days it seems as though just about everything is "multi-purpose" and adequate for most tasks.

We use to run a concentrated water soluble product (the name escapes me) in all our drill presses, mills, lathe and saws...just change up the concentration for the given job. Seemed to work well in materials from 1018 and 1045 to O-1.
 
Found it.

SharpCool (an FMT product). Reasonably priced, available in bulk. Fastenal is a good supplier of it.
 
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