On Sunday, January 16, 2022 3:34:37 PM EST gene heskett wrote: replying to myself to issue a warning and a fix.
> I just fired up the 6040 to make a pocket for a 3mm sq nut. Noted that > I put > half a cup of lysol bathroom spray in it. But haven't disconnected it > so I can dump the tank in the back yard. Yet. > And I still haven't dumped it. I bought an undersink Colligan sediment filter just because it looked like a higher quality unit than anything else I'd looked at, a bit less than $50 at tsc. Then I went to the local hdwe store and bought 2, 1/2" pipe to 1.4" hose barbs and 3/4" bushings to fit the filter ports. Should have bought brass, these were split molded, leaving a worn die fin at the junction of the die halves. Took 4 layers a teflon tape to seal the threads and some permagoo on the barbs to seal them down to about a drop a minute or less leakage. But the screw on filter can might as well not have had an o-ring seal, it just poured out. Taking it apart again three or 4 times I finally grokked it had a pressure limit built in and that if it had city water pressure it would push the o-ring outward in its groove and seal. At 2 or 4 psi, taint gonna happen. Then I spotted a raised edge on the bottom of the cap, measured it and it would hit some carefully machined bumps located outside the o-ring groove, so as it was maybe 5 thou high, I reasoned it might get a better grip and seal on the o-ring if it was removed, so I filed it off until the file was touching the rest of the bottom face of the cap, then smoothed it up with a 600 grit diamond plate. Stop leak worked. I've got about a drop every 2 or so minutes at the output adapter I've unplugged the motor, and left lcnc thinking its running about 4k, so the pump is running, and all sorts of particulates can be seen in the filter but I'm far more interested in how clear the mix looks tomorrow. Right now it's cloudy and only the ghost of the pump can be seen thru the plastic tank. But it appears I may have a decent filter that doesn't seem to restrict the flow. And with 2 spare 5 micron filters I've got maybe $75 in it. Take care and stay well everybody. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
