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Post by cookie3rocks on Apr 19, 2004 22:37:57 GMT -5
RV antifreeze smoothy anyone
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Post by mrbrett on Apr 20, 2004 7:09:10 GMT -5
will that help you from getting to cold in the winter?
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Post by sandsman1 on Apr 20, 2004 10:54:47 GMT -5
no but you wont freeze solid hahahaha
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MichiganRocks
starting to spend too much on rocks
"I wasn't born to follow."
Member since April 2007
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Post by MichiganRocks on Apr 25, 2004 13:27:46 GMT -5
Hey John, I've been using the RV antifreeze since I started. I've never had or used a saw like this before so I don't have anything to compare it too. Sure seems to work well though as far as I can tell. Haven't been able to detect any sign of heat and nothing that I leave wet seems to rust. Blade also seems to handle slicing through the rock with no problems, even ripping through agate without a complaint. Right now I'm using the MK Hot Dog diamond blade. I started out with half antifreeze and half water with one tablespoon of borax per gallon of liquid. Just decided to add that to help improve the "wetting" of the water. That did seem to help a lot. The water now takes to the blade like a second skin. I started out recirculating coolant in the reservoir, but I'm getting ready to switch to an external setup. I plan to pump fresh coolant from a 5 gallon pail and drain the saw into a 5 gallon pail. There I can let the mud settle out, which seems to happen very fast, and then pump the cooant over to the input pail. I can then just take the pail of mud outside and wash it out and I'm ready to start again. Using the recirculating method, I could see that after a few cuts I was pumping small amounts of the mud back onto the blade and that doesn't seem like a good thing to do. MK also reccommeds against recirculating the coolant unless you have no other way of running fresh coolant. I'll keep you posted on how it continues to work. It's also nice to just be able to dip the slab in a bucket of water and it's rinsed! Take care. Ron
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Post by mrbrett on Apr 26, 2004 7:10:04 GMT -5
How often should you filter you oil? My oil is about 2 weeks old. Will once a month be good enough?
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Post by sandsman1 on Apr 26, 2004 10:14:26 GMT -5
depends on what and how much your cuttin i went about two weeks the first time till i could see the clean oil sittin on top of around a half inch of sludge looks just like mud but i was cuttin rocks non stop for alotta those days all day long, so if you just cut now and then id just keep an eye on the sludge buildup when it gets thick its time to change i just got my new electric bill its usually around 60.00 this time of yr but with runnin that saw and tumblers it was 91.00 so im glad i cut alotta stuff im good for awile now ok seeya john
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