"Ignoramus31261" wrote in message
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On 2009-05-09, Richard W. wrote:
You really need to wash off the machine to, because you could have
bacteria
laying in pockets of the machine waiting for fresh coolant to revive
them.
At work they clean all the machine surfaces with disinfectant before
adding
new coolant.

I would just pour in a couple of buckets of doluted bleach and can run
the pump for a few minutes with it. Would that work?

i

The coolant can get splashed all over while cutting. So if you just run the
pump you may not get into all the nooks and crannies on your machine. At
work they have a specially built pump and wand to spray the disinfectant
around and scrub the really dirty spots. Then they rinse everything out.

Richard W.