Had a coolant line decide to become a fountain right at shift change

So I'm running this big job on our Haas VF-2, a 4 hour cycle for a batch of 20 parts. I'm about 15 minutes from the end, just starting to clean up my area, when I hear this weird hissing sound. I turn around and one of the main coolant lines on the machine head had split right at a fitting. It wasn't a drip, it was a full-on spray, hitting the ceiling tiles and raining back down. My floor was a lake in about 30 seconds. I hit the e-stop, but the pump had already dumped a good 20 gallons from the tank. The real kicker? The shop cat, who usually sleeps on a pallet in the corner, got a direct hit and shot out of there like a rocket. Spent the next hour mopping and trying to find where he hid. Anyone have a good source for those braided stainless coolant lines that won't give out after a year?

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faithf779d ago

How's the cat now?

thea1438d ago

Oh man, that sounds like a total nightmare. Honestly, coolant lines blowing at the worst possible time is the worst kind of shop luck. Tbh, I've seen that exact thing happen and the cleanup is just brutal, especially when it gets everywhere. Hope you got the cat dried off and calmed down.