Re: Cutting fluids?

Buy_Sell wrote:
I bought some cutting fluid from BusyBeeTools in Calgary, Alberta,
Canada. This stuff was called Kut-Sol and made in Hamilton, Ontario,
Canada. When I got home, I noticed all of the health warnings on the
sticker. I had just purchased a metal lathe and set it up in the
basement of my home. The label says that I need lots of ventilation
and to keep it away from heat sources, etc. I'm a bit concerned about
this and might end up returning this product. A friend of mine told
me that they have cutting fluids now that you could almost drink.
They are supposed to be non-toxic, non-flammable, etc. Can anyone
enlighten me about such products? Thanks...

In high production shops, they may vaporize a lot of these products. I visited a shop that had some screw machines making something with large tapped holes in it. Every 15 seconds the tap would be rammed into the part and a HUGE cloud of oil smoke would explode out of the machine and be sucked up by a big fume hood over it. I mean, this was a cloud 10 feet in diameter and 5 feet high, just a column between the machine and the hood.
That cloud would be a true health hazard to anyone who worked close enough to inhale a taste of it for a couple hours.

Your machines in the home shop are not likely powerful enough to vaporize coolant like that. If the stuff doesn't have much odor when you take the lid off, I would not worry about it. If it does, you may have gotten the wrong stuff. I have some tapping fluids that are fairly aromatic, but I use one drop per tapped hole, so it is no problem. My kids will inherit the remaining 90% full can.

Watch out for the MSDS for water - when vaporized it can cause scalding, when deep enough it can cause drowning, maybe even a danger because you can slip on wet floors.....


Jon
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