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That time a coolant line burst and flooded my machine's electrical cabinet
I was running a Haas VF-2SS back in March at a shop in Cleveland, just pushing through a batch of 316 stainless steel parts. About 4 hours into the run I heard this weird hissing sound and noticed the coolant hose going to the spindle had blown off its fitting. By the time I hit the E-stop, maybe 45 seconds, coolant was spraying everywhere inside the enclosure and pooling at the base of the machine. I grabbed a shop vac and towels but a bunch of that water-based coolant had already seeped into the electrical cabinet through the floor grommets. The machine threw a bunch of alarm codes and I had to call in our maintenance guy to pull the covers off and dry everything with compressed air and contact cleaner. We lost about 6 hours of production time that day and I learned to always check those hose clamps before starting a long cycle. Has anyone else had a coolant leak cause major electrical problems or am I just unlucky?
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mason.paige15d ago
Oh man, that sucks! Reminds me of the time my buddy's dog got into a bag of chocolate chips while we were watching the game, and we spent the whole night cleaning up puke instead of catching the highlights.
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