marka12161
Stainless
- Joined
- Dec 23, 2016
- Location
- Oswego, NY USA
These old monarch's came with nice big chip pans with an integral sump for flood coolant. On mine and i think others there is what looks to be a coolant suction pipe for an external horizontal pump where the pump would sit on the floor below the chip pan and the discharge would be hard piped to a clamp on the carriage. My machine has no pump and when i finally get it into place, i'm pretty sure i'll want to run flood coolant. I think i could either run a vertical pump which would basically put the pump in the sump of the chip pan keeping the floor under the machine clear. I can see this as an advantage when it comes to keeping the shop floor clean but would likely complicate cleaning the sump. If i fit the thing with a horizontal pump i clutter the floor but the sump is nice and accessible for cleaning.
Any opinions?
Any opinions?