water cooled spindle opinions

[Jonathan]

I bought mine from solar.jean on eBay and it's been fine... but I've only had that one so I don't know any different. At least 90% of the time I use it on aluminium and I have used it with brass, mild steel and titanium perfectly well.
I've had no problems with the VFDs that came with them, other than an earthing problem which was my own fault.

Although it will be quieter than the Kress the cutting noise generally exceeds the noise from the actual spindle. There are much better reasons to get a water cooled spindle, such as rigidity and superior collets.

a submersible water pump droped into darkened and sealed container with around 20ltr water

Same, except I didn't bother with the darkening and instead just recently added a bit of copper sulphate to the water. A gram is more than enough to stop anything growing in 20L of water.

[JAZZCNC]

just remembered I've also had one from lovehappy shopper thou must admit wasn't has nice as Chai's latest offerings.
It had the crappy connector and lower Amp's thou he may have upgraded by now becuase that was probably going on a year ago now. As far as I know it's been fine and the guy who's machine it's on hasn't come back or said anything bad about it.!

[Jonathan]

As far as I know it's been fine and the guy who's machine it's on hasn't come back or said anything bad about it.!

Could mean it was fatal...

[JAZZCNC]

Could mean it was fatal...

Nah no reason too.!!. . . I have a good relationship with everyone I've helped and they all know they can come back with any problem and I'll help best I can.

I take no news as good news and it's not uncommon to not hear from folks when everythings ok.!!. . . . Thou Belive me they are soon back when it's not ok. :whistling:

[phill05]

Thanks guy's
have been looking at Chai's 2.2kv is this one ok to go with, what about import tax / vat do you get hit hard

[JAZZCNC]

Only ever got charged VAT. Thou the shipping company rip you off for about £10 admin fee for handling the Vat side. . . Bastards.!!

Opp's.!!. . Yes it's good choice, plenty of power and allows good cutter range 1 to 13mm. On that note While your buying get your self a collet set because it only comes with one 6mm collet. Either from chai or others on ebay roughly around £25.