Swarf Diablo Pro System

This family of products is a complete solution to automating the washdown of your CNC machine. The system works by maximizing the potential of your machine's existing coolant pump by individually cycling its flow through twelve outputs routed throughout the enclosure. The result of this process is high-pressure, high-volume flow exactly where your machine needs it most. The Swarf Diablo utilizes lean manufacturing principles surrounding wasted motion, standardization, waiting, misused brainpower, effectively making your shop a better place to do work.

Core benefits of this system include:

- Eliminating human tasks, fatigue, and risk of injury

- Preventing machine damage caused by chip buildup that obstructs machine motion

- Extending unattended machine operation (lights out production capabilities)

Hardware included with our Swarf Diablo Pro System:

- (1) Main Valve Body - This core component controls the coolant flow path using a 12V DC motor and a rotating aluminum valve. This assembly has magnetic feet and 15 rubber sealing surfaces to completely seal the unit from leaking.

- (28) Hose Wall Mounts - These machined aluminum components are used to properly route the 5/8" ID hose (not included) around your machine. They attach to the hoses with zip ties (included) and mount to the wall with Sikaflex 1-A (not including, see complete list at bottom of page).

- (12) 90 Degree Fittings - These plastic fittings allow for hose routing to easily pass through sheet metal in a perpendicular fashion. This reduces hose kinking and gives the ability to cleanly route all horizontally oriented hoses on the roof of your machine rather than inside. These are meant to pass through 1" holes in sheet metal and includes twelve rubber grommets to hide any burrs from the drilling process. We believe this routing infrastructure to have the cleanest look and serviceability.

- (12) Nozzles - These machined aluminum fittings are where the coolant exits the system and begins pushing swarf to the exit of your machine. Each Nozzle has 19 angled holes to divert coolant flow to a large area and push chips to the exit of the machine.

- (1) Switching Device - This assembly serves multiple purposes. It uses a neodymium magnet to flip a non-contact reed switch on and off thereby controlling the motor of the main valve body. The neodymium magnet is attached to the door of an off-the-shelf ½” NPT backflow prevention fitting. The motor is switched on by flowing coolant while also preventing gravity from draining the hoses back to the tank when the system is off. This assembly also includes other convenient ½” NPT fittings for attaching to the line from your pump and female garden hose (not included). 

What non-included items would you still need to do a complete installation?

1. (1) 100 ft. 5/8” ID garden hose - This is a good minimum length depending on the size of your machine. It is enough for any machine we have installed on so far. We recommend you use the factory made female garden hose fitting and rubber seal to attach to our switching device. We have tested five different brands of garden hose which all worked fine. Our favorite so far is a brand "Fevone" on Amazon linked here.
2. (1 cartridge) Sikaflex 1-A McMaster-Carr P/N 6937T93 - This is our recommended product for attaching the wall mounts to the walls of your machine. It is sufficiently strong and highly resistant to chemicals, so it should last the life of your machine. This structural sealant never becomes completely solid and is therefore always removable with a plastic razor blade. We recommend cleaning all surfaces with isopropyl alcohol before adhering and let the product dry for a weekend before mounting hoses. This type of cartridge needs a caulk gun and is a great product to have around a machine shop.
3. (1) 1” hole saw or step drill - This is needed to add holes for the hoses to enter the enclosure. We recommend these holes to be on the roof of the machine, directly where the 90 degree fittings connect the horizontal hoses (roof) and vertical hoses (inside wall). A step drill leaves the best finish but we have also used a hole saw, McMaster-Carr P/N 41005A18, with success as well. The included grommets will hide any burrs left from the drilling process. We will include two 1” plastic panel plugs if a hole is drilled in an incorrect location and plugging the hole is desired.

Please do not hesitate to reach out to us directly for questions on this product. We look forward to working with you.

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