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Advice about spraying unit for light metals on slider

 

Does anyone have experience with a slider that has the optional spraying unit for cutting light metals?? I'm planning to buy a slider at the end of this year, and am trying to decide if I should get a K700S with that option, as I do an odd array of one-off fabrication, and the ability to cut aluminum sheet could be helpful.? My main hesitation is whether the sprayer is really only useful to enable a saw for consistent cutting of aluminum, but not so helpful if one is regularly wanting to switch between wood and aluminum.? If it takes me hours to switch materials due to the need for cleaning things up, I won't bother with the sprayer.
 

I have cut a lot of aluminum on the slider. Unless you want to do it a lot, I wouldn't bother with the lubrication option. I use a Castrol Stick Lube I think they call it, use it on the chop saw, table saw and band saw if I'm cutting aluminum.

If you really have a lot, I designed an MQL lubrication system and you could run alcohol through it. That? is done on quite a few metal working machines where they don't want any oil on the finished product. I have a pdf instruction file on how to build the system if anybody wants it. File is too big to email, see the link below:





Brian Lamb
blamb11@...
lambtoolworks.com


On Tuesday, October 29, 2024 at 01:46:34 PM MST, Michael Wolf <missingeggacct@...> wrote:


Does anyone have experience with a slider that has the optional spraying unit for cutting light metals?? I'm planning to buy a slider at the end of this year, and am trying to decide if I should get a K700S with that option, as I do an odd array of one-off fabrication, and the ability to cut aluminum sheet could be helpful.? My main hesitation is whether the sprayer is really only useful to enable a saw for consistent cutting of aluminum, but not so helpful if one is regularly wanting to switch between wood and aluminum.? If it takes me hours to switch materials due to the need for cleaning things up, I won't bother with the sprayer.
 

Thanks Brian, I'll take a look.? One of my questions was whether or not the spray attachment is designed for MQL, or whether it makes a real mess.? I see that SCM's equivalent option is described as "Device for the blade micro-lubrication", which sounds a lot more like MQL coolant than some kind of flood system.? In the Felder catalog, I don't see any description for the K900/700 series machines.? In the Format section of the catalog, I see a picture of a very small spray head with a description of "High performance lubricating oil can be sprayed directly onto the saw blade", which indicates lubrication is the goal, not cooling, and thus implies the volume of oil (and thus mess) is small.
 

I don't think I have ever heard mention of someone getting that option on a Felder, so finding out how it works is going to be up to direct questions from Felder, and that's if they know....

Brian Lamb
blamb11@...
lambtoolworks.com


On Tuesday, October 29, 2024 at 03:19:44 PM MST, Michael Wolf <missingeggacct@...> wrote:


Thanks Brian, I'll take a look.? One of my questions was whether or not the spray attachment is designed for MQL, or whether it makes a real mess.? I see that SCM's equivalent option is described as "Device for the blade micro-lubrication", which sounds a lot more like MQL coolant than some kind of flood system.? In the Felder catalog, I don't see any description for the K900/700 series machines.? In the Format section of the catalog, I see a picture of a very small spray head with a description of "High performance lubricating oil can be sprayed directly onto the saw blade", which indicates lubrication is the goal, not cooling, and thus implies the volume of oil (and thus mess) is small.

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