[CalG]

Ahh

Air stream entrained coolant drops. Makes sense Thanks

[Geof]

I have a cautionary note:

You are using a clear plastic domestic water filter housing.

My shop has used these for coolant filters for years without problems and I have suggested their use many times here on cnczone. Recently, however, someone did install one and the plastic housing fractured making a bit of a mess with coolant all over the place.

With your setup the housing is under air pressure, not liquid pressure, and when it is almost empty of coolant it is almost full of air at 15 psi; if this housing fractured it could fling plastic shards around.

A metal shroud around it may be a good idea.

[CalG]

My house water pressure ranges from 40-70 psi!

What a watery mess if one of the two filters would just Crack!

[Geof]

My house water pressure ranges from 40-70 psi!

What a watery mess if one of the two filters would just Crack!

Yes but then you could sue them.

My thought was that they cracked in use on a machine because they were subjected to pressure cycles every time the coolant pump turned on, leading to a fatigue effect; in a house application the pressure stays constant nearly all the time.

It was on a Haas machine with the high flow pump that generates around 20-25psi.

[Teyber12]

I have a cautionary note:

You are using a clear plastic domestic water filter housing.

My shop has used these for coolant filters for years without problems and I have suggested their use many times here on cnczone. Recently, however, someone did install one and the plastic housing fractured making a bit of a mess with coolant all over the place.

With your setup the housing is under air pressure, not liquid pressure, and when it is almost empty of coolant it is almost full of air at 15 psi; if this housing fractured it could fling plastic shards around.

A metal shroud around it may be a good idea.

I think a cheaper solution would be to get one of those big ball buckets they use for baseball (if you buy a tub of sunflower seeds those buckets)
http://ak.buy.com/db_assets/large_im.../206226886.jpg
and just place it in there.

[Geof]

Just make sure the top half of the filter unit cannot fly out like an air propelled mortar.