Unahorn
Aluminum
- Joined
- Sep 20, 2012
- Location
- sacramento
Any suggestions for cleaning and drying small parts from Swiss style machines? Tedious right now with too much labor.
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Not swiss specific, but I've heard of guys using household or commercial dishwashers for the purpose. Household would probably work better as commercial dishwashers store the rinse water in the base (which will go nasty) and often don't have a drying cycle.
EDIT: thinking about this, might not actually be a great idea as the wastewater will probably be full of coolant... Probably not a great approach environmentally.
Crest ultrasonic with Master Stages Clean 2030
I thought we were supposed to stay economical.... But if we're going to Crest, then one of these should work well for larger batches:
Automated Parts Washing Systems – RAMCO Parts Washers
I actually gave that a thought when I was making a lot of automotive pulleys in the Dualkit days. I never tried it, and got blasted on here by a few people for giving it a thought. I think you would have to have a pretty specific type of parts for it to work. Too small and I think they would get badly damaged.
I thought we were supposed to stay economical.... But if we're going to Crest, then one of these should work well for larger batches:
Automated Parts Washing Systems – RAMCO Parts Washers
Crest, in my opinion. Is economical. Since it seems to be the only one that lasts more than 2 years.
Does the Master stages 2030 work better than Zep Purple? Our parts are all 316 stainless.
You should have provided a lot more information. As mentioned before, what are you using for coolant? Do your parts have a lot of deep small bores that are hard to get clean of chips and coolant. What type of materials do you run? What approximate sizes and volumes are we talking?
Really hate any company who can not even say a msrp price. Only thing we can get out of them is "North of 100k" Seriously why are nearly all machine dealers and machine accessories so stubborn about putting a price on a product. Just tell us the price or have it listed so I can make a determination if this is something we want to spend for our company.
Sorry about being lazy on the description, was just in a hurry like normal and looking for ideas and solutions. Mostly focused on our screw machines. Mostly 300 series steels about 75% of the work, and about 25% aluminum parts, cutting in per oil.
We are currently using smaller ultrasonic cleaners and hand blowing off the parts. Grabbing a larger ultrasonic machine would make sense and is affordable. It is the labor of blowing off each individual part is becoming a chore.
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