Quote Originally Posted by WmRMeyers View Post
Frank, there is a difference between mist and flood cooling. Mist cooling is supposed to do the job without as much coolant going everywhere. I think that's it's major pro, anyway. Flood is used for chip removal as well as cooling.
Bill
Bill I bought my first lathe about 55 years ago, never ran any CNC for machining but use coolant in one form or another for most operations whether turning, milling or sawing and probably would for grinding if I had a surface or Blanchard grinder. When I use mist, you can see a fog in the air and it is only by the shielding containments, I set up that prevents there being a mess all over the place. when flood cooling if it were possible, I would use emersion cooling instead for some operations. I don't concern myself with breathing airborne partials from the mist I just step aside and view the operation from a slight distance up wind if possible providing I have as fan going Heck I've been welding and or smoking for 60 years so a little more crap in my lungs is probably not going to make much difference at this stage in life anyway