To get his work out or get the word out. No question he is some pissed off. I'd think he'd get some kind of tax relief even if he sells it for for scrap.
oops, good catch. I meant word
Your Cobot/part loader runs a pass with a shop vac every tool change?
Does it come with removeable chip pans? If not, I'd have some fab'd up. That could be a quick and cheap way to remove the chips.
It's got a chip pan, into which coolant and chips directly fall, with kind of sluice gates that seem intended to pass coolant but not chips into the lower coolant tank. Coolant and chips both pass indiscriminately, so I've added filter media, and since that slows down coolant flow I've enlarged the gates. If I can find a full chip conveyor or auger solution for a reasonable price I'll go with that; I've already asked a local company if they can come up with something. If not, I have a plan for a new chip bin with a perf-plate floor to make use of the whole area of the filter material, and then another perf-plate tray above that, just for larger chips, that can be easily pulled out and dumped. If I end up going this route and it woks out I'll share the plans.
That was my first thought as well.
Yep, there's a path from the front to the back, about a foot tall and two feet wide.
