Are You Using the Right High-Pressure Coolant?
A Texas manufacturer had severe foaming problems with a high-pressure coolant system until it switched to a coolant formulated for use at high psi.
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High-pressure coolant operating at 1,000 psi and higher can significantly reduce tool wear, enable higher cutting speeds and provide other benefits for manufacturers working with tough materials. However, using the wrong coolant in a high-pressure system can cause foaming and hinder potential gains, as LB Pipe & Coupling (Mongolia, Texas) discovered.
LB Pipe began experiencing foaming problems during the initial startup of a new robot-tended cell, halting production before it had even started. After trying a number of modifications to the coolant lines, pump, tank, tooling and nozzle configurations, the ultimate solution turned out to be the simplest: change the coolant. Read the full story here.
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