First Time Cleaning a Coolant Tank - Will She Succeed? | BAPM Ep.9

[@markterryberry4477]

Great job Rebecca! No better feeling than fresh coolant in a machine!

[@eddrm4685]

Thanks for sharing! A couple dollars a gallon is a GREAT deal to get rid of old collant! I'd have to double check but I think it's well over $1000 to get rid of a few drums of collant where we are. We switched to Micro-Drop MQL units by Trico, the oils not cheap but it lasts forever and works great for cutting A2.

[@MilSpecManufacturing]

Thanks for taking the time to watch! Yes, it’s such a great price!

[@Muny]

Treat a machine well, and it will treat you well. Thanks for sharing your process.

[@shaeichele]

Awesome Rebecca! Great video.

[@MilSpecManufacturing]

Thank you!

[@dhess140]

What is the frequency between "spa days"? I have been doing in annually.

[@themonkeyproject]

What's the 2 post lift for?

[@silverstacker8282]

Throw a coalescencent oil skimmer from Abanaki or Net-Jen and your sump will stay clean as a whistle.

[@MilSpecManufacturing]

That’s the plan! 😊🎉

[@SuperTheshiz]

love when people are all scientific with the refractometer, instead of just dunking it into the coolant lol

[@Nessman6]

What is the liquid called that you put in before you dump the coolant?

[@min-yw8es]

probably distilled water

[@sobocinski123]

would have been cool to explain Brix reading vs. concentration to the ones who do not know. They will need the multiplier from their coolant supplier

[@matt-4460]

We have two machines in our factory where the coolant becomes disgusting very quickly, bacteria growing within the coolant tank. These machines are always used yet we still have the problem. The other 15 odd machines have no problem with the coolant.

[@MilSpecManufacturing]

Are you having bad chip build or tramp oil in those tanks? I forgot to show it on video, but we use an upgraded fish tank bubbler rated for 1000 gallons, to keep our coolant oxygenated and not stagnant. That might also help those particular machines.

[@matt-4460]

@@MilSpecManufacturing The one gets a lot of tramp oil in the tank, the other one has zero oil going into the tank. All of our milling machines suffer with lots of chips getting into the tank however the coolant stays fresh in them.

[@joshualegault1095]

Castrol mb-50 has never turned on me. Got a couple machines that have gone 3 years without a coolant change

[@andrewhotko]

good aSS

[@antsman331]

Damn some of you are going to nitpick her when a majority of men never change, clean, or take care of their coolant. I was in a shop where every Monday it smelled so bad, and no one ever took care of the coolant. The owner wouldn't buy skimmers, or coalesers. He just blamed the coolant had everyone just toping off the bad shit.

[@andrewhotko]

hass machine?

[@wyatt5391]

machine has a pump already and just vacuum the rest out once its to low to pump

[@jonbaker3728]

It's obvious to me that you need to spend a little more effort on maintenance. My coolant lasts for multiple years and never gets that gross. Put an aquarium air pump in your tank, add a bag filter to filter all coolant. Add an oil skimmer most importantly, to help prevent that cap of oil sealing off the oxygen.

[@lvxleather]

💯 I added filters to all our machines and it makes a huge difference, keeps the surface finishes nice too.

[@MilSpecManufacturing]

Hey Jon! Thanks for the awesome suggestions! We have upgrades coming! It wasn’t shown in videos but we do use a bubbler in our tank. Love it! Everything was removed for filming to intentionally let the tank become stagnant overnight for a true before / after with using a cleaner. We do alot of high production, and we’re definitely looking forward to installing an oil skimmer.

[@ipadize]

Does adding oxygen make the coolant more foamy when using tsc?

[@CGT80]

Thumbs down for putting crap noise over the entire video and even over the dialogue. She adds a gallon of oil to the tank and then pumps it all out to be disposed of? That makes no sense. Was this clip added in the wrong place in the video? I'm assuming it is a water soluble oil and it is used with the coolant. This is only the third video I have watched from this channel. The video on machining the wrong copper material was interesting. It seems that this channel covers a bunch of different machine shops. I'm trying to wrap my head around the format of the channel.

[@wyatt5391]

Also you never drained the old coolant in the lines when you started pumping fresh coolant through. The fresh coolant is now contaminated.