Has anyone added flood cooling to a benchtop lathe?

[vtcnc]

Wonder if there's an application for dripping something like cool mist (dripping to avoid atomization), coupled with a small pan and something like pig mat below to catch it.

I just really don't like oil smoke

An old fashion drip oiler rigged up to a stand and some tubing will be as close to a machinists IV as you are going to get.


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[Lo-Fi]

I found dilute soluble oil coolant applied with an acid brush to be quite sufficient. No rust issues, little mess. I've been using Dromus B, making batches up as I need it. Keeps well in an old plastic bottle:

Quaker Houghton Dromus B - 1 Litre

Quaker Houghton Dromus B is a general purpose soluble oil for light to moderate duty machining on a wide range of materials.

www.lubefinder.com

It even has quite a pleasant smell to it.

 

[erikmannie]

My lathe has a factory flood coolant system. I chose MobilMet 766 “Neat Cutting Fluid” which I set to a slow drizzle & keep away from high RPM chuck jaws.

This CF smokes sometimes; my family members in the house have noted the odor of this smoking CF. It is fairly messy, but I always use CF if at all possible so I tolerate the stained shirts & pants.

Before my flood coolant system, I usually found myself using my left hand to drizzle CF on the work, so it is nice to have both hands available again.