Tricks for emptying a slab saw with no drain?

[QuailRiver]

Let the oil sit without turning the saw on for a day or two to let as much sludge settle as possible. Pump off the top layer of cleaner oil into a bucket without disturbing the sludge. Then pump out as much of the dirty sludge/oil as will pass through the pump and filter it through a brown paper bag.

Then dump enough cat litter into the reservoir to soak up the thicker rock sludge oil and scoop out and throw away the dirty thick dirty litter/sludge. Then wipe out and clean up the inside of the saw reservoir with a terrycloth rag. And your ready to add clean oil and start slabbing again!

[AzRockGeek]

If the oil on top of the sludge looks clean, just scrape out the sludge on the bottom with a putty knife.

Some people use old shop vacs to suck it out, I have never tried it.

Good luck.

[parfive]

If there’s still no sign of a drain after you’ve cleaned it out and you’d like to simplify the next cleanout, install a drain before you refill.

[jasoninsd]

Have you considered hiring a day laborer to do it? 


*Just giving you another option!  LOL

[mohs]

I got hair brain idea
Not going to help w/ the presnt situation
And it may already have been manufactured

Have they made a saw with slant bottom
w/ a drain plug?
Well not to slanted cause you want the blade to stay bathed

Perhaps with attachable bag system to filter the oil?

I used to operate a Vollmer CNC Saw Sharpener
It had a large pullout wheeled drawer that held the pumped flood coolant
Think it was 10 gallon. Lots.

Emptying that tub was a problem.
With all that fine carbide gunk in it.

Came up with the brilliant idea to
drill a drain plug in the bottom of the drawer ,

We even made a ramp to push
the drawer on up on for easier disposal
into 1/2 drum with a filter.
We didn’t reuse the coolant tho

Anyway an old idea.
Wonder if some one makes that setup?

If not= credit mohs w/ the royalties
Or at least a gneiss rock

I think Vollemer as even incorporated the idea
Butte do they recognize the original mohs ?
No



mostly

[catmandewe]

forum.rocktumblinghobby.com/thread/21533

[mohs]

As I venture deeper into the cut

wonder if anyone as ever tried flood coolant idea?

know it would be tricky
compared to the saw blade
always bathed in oil


Yet a flood coolants system
would greatly reduce the clean up mess


the vid towards the end show the Vollmer flood coolant system