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Mike Henry wrote:
... A tubing-type skimmer ... animation here ...

http://www.abanaki.com/coolant_products.html#TubeTastic

Oh, that's clever! Give that man a patent. Bob

I tried to view that damned thing and there is no joy. Not sure if it's
my dialup or the computer itself---but I'm grateful for the link.
Thanks, Mike.

Care to comment on what you saw? At this point I'm totally in the dark.

Martin nailed it pretty well. The simulation showed the skimmer body
mounted on the outside of a lathe base/pedestal with an endless tube
protruding through a rectangular cutout in the base and dangling into the
sump. The tube rotates through the coolant and picks up tramp oil which
is then scraped off as it enters the skimmer body and is dropped into a
trough on the skimmer that channels it to a tramp oil collection
container, also outside the lathe sump. It seemed like it might be a
good candidate for sumps that don't have an easy way to mount a belt of
disc skimmer which generally have to be mounted directly over the sump
and I gather that's not an option for your Graziano.

Zebra also makes a similar oil skimmer and it's pictured he

http://www.beacontechnology.com/mate...machineskates/

with a basic description of how it works and you can see videos of them
here in 1.7, 3.4 and 60.1 MB versions. The 2 smaller files are MOV
format (Quicktime?) and the large one is AVI. The AVI looks like it will
take ~20 minutes to download on my cable connection, so you probably
don't want to try that on dialup. BTW, you might find it quicker to
right cick on the video link and save it to your hard disk and play it
from there rather than to left click and play it from the link.

Mike


Thanks for the tip, Mike. I am likely one of the worst on this group
where computer skills are concerned, and had no idea about right clicking.
I'll investigate these items in good time.

You nailed the situation with my Graziano. It would be dead easy to apply
the skimmer you described, while anything more complex would border on
impossible. Lathes equipped with coolant are particularly bad for tramp
oils, considering the chip pan catches everything and shuttles it to the
sump.

I should have done something about tramp oils long ago, but there was
precious little on the market when I was actively machining. A lot has
happened in that department since '83! :-)

Thanks, all, for the great tips and descriptions.

The links were supposed to be:

http://www.zebraskimmers.com/oil_ski...tml#Sidewinder

and

http://www.zebraskimmers.com/product...ure_video.html

Mike