How to Avoid Chips All Over The Place While Using The Threading Process?

Hahaha obviously we clean it but I'm talking here of a constant operation with Big tonnage tubes rolling around, entering the area to clean while operating it's not accepted.

Maybe a big vacuum cleaner....? ...or possibly a robot with compressed air blowing the scrap away with a grated floor that the debri drops through to a concrete surface swept with a street sweeper...

That's actually a nice idea but It'll be difficult to install it on the top of the conveyor

Lol, my thoughts exactly!

Don't know how much chips that machine would produce... but I've worked on machines that would produce over (1) 55 gallon barrels of uncontained chips in a 10 hour shift.

And that was with a vacuum system taking away the majority of chips.

It depends on what kind of metal you are threading. If it is iron, you might be able to collect it with a magnet behind a plastic or paper barrier. (From the looks of the turnings, to me it appears to be aluminum. )

It's steel, and actually we use that technic but it's not very effective, I'm planning on implementing something in conjunction with that system.

I'm thinking on installing some kind of flexible material to emulate a door in the entrance of the threading machine, in order to clean the chips that are fix in the tube, but I'm not sure about the material of it.

Wow thank you, that's exactly what I'm looking for.

have you considered putting in a vacuum system.

I'm actually considering it but it'll be difficult to implement it on top of the conveyor

Yeah I think I will go with the brushing option, it looks effective and easy to install, thank you very much

Who was it that said, "A pessimist finds a problem for every solution."?

You have two choices, either eliminate the chips or contain them.

To eliminate them, would thread rolling be an alternative? Can the chips be made smaller and easier to manage with changes in cutter inserts, speeds, feed rate, feed action, etc.?

To contain them, you could have knowledgeable fabricators custom-build a containment guards to encapsulate the area with appropriate access doors and interlocks to not impede tool changes, part loading, etc. Perhaps integrate air knives or magnetic chip evacuation to direct the chips out of the machine. A detailed 5S plan for this process would be advisable to round out the plan.

Uncontrolled chips flying about is a SERIOUS safety risk that your company should make a priority to mitigate.

Yes, as I wrote on the description we have a guard system that prevent that flying chip and works just fine, the problem is with the long chips that are left fixed on the surface of the tube so when it starts rolling in the differents conveyors those long ships fall everywhere in the area.

I would think long ships would be an even more serious problem than long boats with Vikings in them. This thread has been answered. Use an internal brush, and if you need, an external brush on the area where the tubes roll away from the thread cutter. Air curtain could be an option, however, I dislike the idea of air jets anywhere near cutting operations since it could pose a safety risk you should not take with respect to swarf in the eyes.

Yes I agree with you, I did thought about using some kind of compressed air system but at the end I think the brushing option is the more clean and secure way to go, thanks for the help.

Several large electromagnets.

Yeah, exactly what I needed, thank you very much.

I have large and strong rare earth magnets taped inside the bristles of my shop broom and it's amazing how much of a difference it's made. I also have strong magnets behind plastic near metal shooting tools. When I pull the magnets the chip and grinding bits fall into my 'save ferrous' bin.

Mainly I go to the effort so when my dog wanders in on me I don't have to worry about his feets.

Nice getup, but my pup is a lifelong nudist.

Nice threads, man! dog!

That is odd. You dog has feets, and also all four of my dogs have 4 feets. I used to have a snake-bit dog with only three legs, but he still had feets. How about that.

My dog is named Feets.

A snake bit off your dogs leg? wow.. everything IS bigger in Texas. All the dogs I have known with three legs were named tripod.

Or 'Lucky'.

Nah, Butch still had both balls, and both eyes. Lucky is down the road a ways from that.

I used to work with a guy who was nicknamed tripod but that's a different story.

There were reports of a fellow near my city that worked in the oil patch that used to just hang the spigot out the side of his coveralls (to the disturbance of all around) when nature called.

No, no. The dog (a chow named Butch), got bit by the snake whilst Butch was attempting to drown it in the stock tank (the way he did rabbits after shaking them violently several times). My sisters wrapped Butch's leg in burlap sackcloth, and laid him in the barn (perhaps to die). He decided he liked living, chewed off his own leg, and came tripod walking up to the front porch of the house. My dad surely loved that old dog. When he had to be put down many years later, I saw my father cry for the only time I can remember.

BTW - north of Amarillo on the farm-to-market road that runs just south of Harrington Generating Station, I ran over a lane stretcher rattlesnake (over 8' length) while on my rice burner motorcycle. I thought that thing was going to climb on for a ride.

Instead, he just kept motoring across the road like nothing happened. I had locked wheels trying to stop to see where he was.

I've found these people can help in a lot of situations where cleanliness concerns are a problem.

International OCD foundation.

The first step to a solution is making sure the problem isn't just a matter of personal perspective.

How can being organized be a disorder?

When it goes too far.

like this joke?

It's a play on words.

organized/disorder

nothing ti worry about

Like the philosophers strike over demarcation. They wanted rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty.

That is almost like physicists arguing about whether energy is information or if the universe is made of information and we don't know what that is, but we know how it acts.

If you don't ask me about the little cat poops on my carpet, I won't ask you about the metal shavings and oil slicks on yours.... (And never mind herring scales.)

Just a minor point, but if you are 5S'ing it, you should re-paint the guard yellow. I know it will be done eventually, but if you are doing a report others read it will look good. Some factories like safety stickers on access doors too.

Nice point, I'll keep that in mind thanks

I have pondered on the idea of rigging flexible pneumatic nozzles to blast shavings airborne while a drop down shield funnels the pieces to a powerful filtered ducting drawn opposite from the user. To do this effectively may require some intricate sheet metal work and inserting a large diameter fan where a wall stands in order to make room.

I didn't consider that, thanks, I think the chip breakers and the brushing system are the way to go.

I'd tour a few other plants that run similar operations to see what they do about it.

How to avoid >CHiPS< all over the place while using the threading process?

It's a simple process, slow down and don't thread your way through Rush Hour Traffic. And if you do see , stop- when it is safe, shut down the power plant, hold your hands up high and don't make any sudden moves! Your Busted and wishing you were back at the plant complaining only about the swarf.

I don't think you can brush that one aside