Who's got the Funk _-_ - Dip Bucket Blues?

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Put in some Borax, Horace
It will stay clean, Liam
No rust at all, Gustival
It's a Loveless trick.
 
i find since i grind alot of of SS i have less a problem tho i can say that in the 7 years i have been playing around with this knife maker thing i have never has slime in my bucket (tho i have to scoop out steel "wool" every few days )
then all i do is top off with freash water and keep going. i took the bucket off for the frist time in about a year and washed it out good last week now i need ot work on getting the proper black water in there to hide the kraken
 
A little Copenhagen keeps the slack bucket respectable, if not entirely clean. A pinch is all it takes.
 
a stainless steel strainer in the bottom of the bucket helps when you drop stuff in there , like a small pin .
 
I hadn't been in the shop grinding for months....my bucket dried up.... I thought I was onto something... I found a billet of rustmascus in the bottom....but it broke when I hammered on it...guess I should have tempered it first... ;)
 
John T Wylie Jr said:
I hadn't been in the shop grinding for months....my bucket dried up.... I thought I was onto something... I found a billet of rustmascus in the bottom....but it broke when I hammered on it...guess I should have tempered it first... ;)
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You should have smelted it down to make "Schmootz".
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
You think slimy slack buckets are gross, you should see the nasty-ass-slime-moldy-1-inch-thick-goo-livers that form on a sump containing certain cutting fluids that has sit dormant a few weeks. One mill has an integral sump in the casting that you have to get down on your hands and knees and reach in there to muck that sump out.
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I worked as a fabricator for a guy who was too cheap to replace the coolant on the coldsaw when it got smelly. I got some in a cut and was hospitalized for an infection that swelled my hand up like a softball

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sunshadow said:
I worked as a fabricator for a guy who was too cheap to replace the coolant on the coldsaw when it got smelly. I got some in a cut and was hospitalized for an infection that swelled my hand up like a softball

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It's a good environment for breeding some nasty funk.

I knew a guy (worked with my brother in law) who actually died from an infection he picked up crawling under a house. He chewed his fingers a lot and the infection got started on a raw cuticle. His hand swelled up like a softball. Then his color got bad. Then he went to the doctor. Then he freakin died. He was about 30.

I worry about the effects of aerosolizing funky coolant on things like face mills and lathe chucks where you can generate a pretty good fog and then breath it.

I've switched over to semi synthetics because they rot less...
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
You think slimy slack buckets are gross, you should see the nasty-ass-slime-moldy-1-inch-thick-goo-livers that form on a sump containing certain cutting fluids that has sit dormant a few weeks. One mill has an integral sump in the casting that you have to get down on your hands and knees and reach in there to muck that sump out.
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Of course I don't have the experience as Nathan, but I can vouch for this... We had to clean out a couple of the machining centers at school.... I was very, very, VERY surprised to find that it was VERY SIMILAR to when I had to help clean out the out houses at the State Park I worked at for 4 summers during college. :barf: :eek: :barf: One of the other students was just sure somebody'd been poop'n in the machine. :eek: :barf: ;) :D
 
I use the water in the slack tub to shape the fire so Im refilling my slack tup pretty often. Got a rainbarrel close by..
 
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