No, the drill is hollow and you pump water through. Also helps to flush out the dust. Except when drilling Aerated concrete or something luke that, then you juat get your bit stuck.
Neat… I always assumed they used the same lube as machining… but I guess you are more interested in keeping the bit cool opposed to the material, where machining is sort of the opposite.
Exactly. Ibalso used like 50l of water for this hole. Pumping in lobe would make a huge mess, and you would have to recycle it, but then there’s sludge in in and so on.
No, the drill is hollow and you pump water through. Also helps to flush out the dust. Except when drilling Aerated concrete or something luke that, then you juat get your bit stuck.
Neat… I always assumed they used the same lube as machining… but I guess you are more interested in keeping the bit cool opposed to the material, where machining is sort of the opposite.
Exactly. Ibalso used like 50l of water for this hole. Pumping in lobe would make a huge mess, and you would have to recycle it, but then there’s sludge in in and so on.
This topic is way too perfect for this podcast : https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05t3gr2 (BBC - The boring talks)
It’s fascinating.
Fascinating, learned something new today. Thanks, neighbor.