My Coolant System

[Tenson]

Thought I'd share a few pictures of how I've made my coolant setup.

The tank is a bit of wide drain pipe with an end cap on it. This lays nicely at an angle on one of the side braces of the machine.






There is then a piece of narrow gutter under the bed laying slightly 'down hill' towards the tank because there was a couple of braces one about 25mm lower than the other under the bed. I put open cell foam in this to filter the swarf.






I thought for a while about the best way to get the water which collects in that pipe back into the tank and eventually just cut a slot in the tank the shape of the gutter and drilled a number of holes for the water to go though.





I then put some holes in the bed above the gutter and popped some alu tube into it so the water went directly down to the gutter. I just need to cut some grooves in the HDPE to channel any on there into the alu extrusion. The machine is at a slight incline so fluid will (slowly) flow to the end with the gutter.



Now, a quick question, is it normal for the blue flexi things to leak like this? (Click the picture for video)