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Warning: had a coolant flood at 2am in a shop outside Detroit because I didn't check a seal on the way cover
I was running a 3 inch aluminum part on a Haas VF-2 when the way cover gasket blew and dumped 20 gallons of coolant across the floor, so I had to shut down the machine and stay late mopping it up while the night supervisor yelled about downtime, has anyone else dealt with a seal failure mid-run and did you patch it or replace the whole cover?
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nancy52417d ago
Honestly it's not a full cover replacement job most of the time, you're overthinking it. The way cover gaskets on those Haas machines are just rubber strips that sit in a groove, they pop out or get pinched if the cover gets bent even a little bit. I'd bet money your seal blew because the cover got tweaked from a chip pile pushing it up, not the gasket itself going bad. Pull the cover off, lay it on a flat surface and check for any warping, then just glue a new gasket strip in with some silicone. That's a 30 minute fix, not a full cover swap. Just make sure you clean out the chip tray real good before you bolt it back down or the same thing will happen in a week.
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skyler_smith8517d ago
Yeah just clean the groove real good and silicone a new strip in, that'll hold fine.
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