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Bubbles Can Be Bad for Your Fluids - and Your Bottom Line

12/03/2010 4:45 PM

Foaming can cost your precision machining shop money by causing loss of fluid, shorten pump life by cavitation, and reduce material removal efficiency by lowering heat removal and lubricity at the workpiece. Here is one way (and two tests to prove) that too much air (as foam) can spoil your metalworking fluids. Milo explains.

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