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#31

Industrial / Re: Blaser Swisslube Coolant r...

Last post by jstell - October 03, 2025, 11:47 AM

We had the Ometa team in here...they come in with a about 1 quart bottle wrapped in a cloth so you can't see what it is and pour some into the tank. Then like magic the smell disappears. The Ometa 900 leaves a smell on your hands.

I think you can buy the additives separately and there are several.  I never have, just to not have to deal with more MSDS and chem storage.  It's all stuff that's in the coolant anyway, so once it's added in, the MSDS for the coolant covers it.

Did they take samples from the machines and send them to Utah (US distributor) or Germany to get lab tested for what's depleted or what's in there that shouldn't be?

#32

Industrial / Re: Blaser Swisslube Coolant r...

Last post by Zoffen - October 03, 2025, 11:39 AM

Extreme Cut 250C user here. Very happy.

I saw a video on the internet that said the blaser was the best so maybe i'm wrong...      

#33

Industrial / Re: Blaser Swisslube Coolant r...

Last post by Here's Johnny! - October 03, 2025, 11:28 AM

Reach out to your supplier and have them put you in touch with the distributor's rep

We had the Ometa team in here...they come in with a about 1 quart bottle wrapped in a cloth so you can't see what it is and pour some into the tank. Then like magic the smell disappears. The Ometa 900 leaves a smell on your hands.

#34

Industrial / Re: Blaser Swisslube Coolant r...

Last post by jstell - October 03, 2025, 11:21 AM

Never been a fan of Blaser.  It seems to go bad just like the rest.  Don't like the smell, and the way it clings to hands.  Not as bad as Hangsterfers.  That stuff you could work 4x10s and on your third day off you could finally eat a sandwich without thinking "mmmm, coolant."  My favorite was Castrol HySol MB50.  Lasted well in machines.  Tool life was good.  Washed from hands well with less lingering odor.  Switched to Ometa 910 after running a bunch of magnesium trashed the Castrol.  Turns out that magnesium is terrible for coolant.  It likes oxygen so well that it becomes an anode and "salts" the machine.  Every exposed metal in the machine gets "soaped" with grey coating kinda like the finish that Apple likes on all their stuff.  And it messes up the pH.

But the thing about Ometa is that they love to run tests and re-balance the emulsifiers and additives.  The Ometa got a little tore up running magnesium as well, but as long as you shop-vac the scum off the top, use an oil skimmer, and don't let it sit uncirculated for too long (a few days, a week) it holds up pretty well.  At a diiferent shop we have had trouble with fungus making a snotty mat on top of the coolant in the tank, partly because of the way the baffles and pump uptake are designed/located in the newer Haas tanks.  It turns the coolant pink with a little bit shiny sheen, instead of the opaque milky that it is when new.  We're able to mitigate it with the rep coming out to re-up the biocides and pH balancers/conditioners, but it does still degrade way faster than my experience at the other shop.

Reach out to your supplier and have them put you in touch with the distributor's rep.

#35

Industrial / Re: Blaser Swisslube Coolant r...

Last post by Here's Johnny! - October 03, 2025, 11:18 AM

The very first question is water quality.

Blaser said they come in and test the water first and then make a recommendation....that is more then Ometa did or does.

#36

Industrial / Re: Blaser Swisslube Coolant r...

Last post by kccadcam - October 03, 2025, 11:16 AM

The very first question is water quality.
Should be at least soft water, RO (reverse osmosis) is the best.
Hard water is a coolant killer.

As far as coolant, really liking Qualichem so far. We switched from Oemeta.
https://qualichem.com/product/xtreme-cut-250c/

#37

Industrial / Re: This weeks "hottest CAM so...

Last post by CNCAppsJames - October 03, 2025, 11:15 AM

I had ONE rig in my career that never crashed even once in the 10-ish years it ran.

It was a dual CPU Pentium Pro 200Mhz. SCSI HDD's 8MB or 16MB and I think a 4MB Matrox Millennium Video Card... running Winfows NT 4.0

#38

Industrial / Blaser Swisslube Coolant revie...

Last post by Here's Johnny! - October 03, 2025, 11:01 AM

Just wondering if this brand is any better then the other stuff on the market? Currently we are using Ometa 900 and we have had it go bad a few times in a few different machines.

#39

Industrial / Re: Mistbuster

Last post by JakeL - October 03, 2025, 05:23 AM

We have ones on our HPlus-630s that work very well.

However we have one on our Quaser MV184 and it does exactly what you're describing, mist in machine = mist out of machine 

#40

Industrial / Re: This weeks "hottest CAM so...

Last post by gcode - October 03, 2025, 04:02 AM

Then there was the 3DLabs Oxygen video card.
I don't remember when I started using Nvida Quadro cards
I think they were installed in a couple of Dell Precision refurbs I bought 20 years ago.
I've still got an old laptop I had custom built.
There used to be a whole string of strip mall stores on Beach Blvd that specialized in laptops.
I had a machine custom built for about $2K. It was built from the same components Dell used and I saved
a grand over buying the comparable Dell.
It had a ATI card but there was an emulator that you installed on top of the drivers.
I used that machine for about 10 years.