Should you practice dry metal cutting? Washington DC

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Although dry metal cutting has become more than just a passing trend in some automotive industry and in manufacturing plants, you will still find machine shops using coolants and lubricants. It's not hard to understand why a shop is reluctant to give up its metal cutting fluids. After all, fluids lubricate and cool the point of cut, flush chips out of the cutting area, and control built-up edge (BUE) on the tool. With higher production rates, lower manufacturing costs, and all the other benefits associated with cutting fluids, why would a shop want to practice dry metal cutting?

There are environmental factors why dry metal cutting should be considered. It eliminates the hazards associated with coolant mist and wet shop floors; circumvent the health effects attributable to long-term exposure to straight-oil, soluble-oil, and synthetic metal cutting fluids; and concerns regarding cutting-fluid disposal. Rather than wet chips that require processing and filtration, you get clean, dry chips that are ready to be sold or recycled.

Economical factors also provide compelling reasons to try dry metal cutting. Once you take into account the costs for fluid procurement, maintenance, and disposal, along with any fines that may be incurred for violating governmental regulations, cutting fluid can amount to a sizable percentage of your total manufacturing cost.

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