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Cutting Fluid For Machining

The document provides an introduction to cutting fluids, which are liquids used in metalworking operations to reduce friction, remove heat, improve tool life, and flush away chips. Cutting fluids come in various categories like straight oils, soluble oils, and synthetic fluids. They help maintain expensive machinery by flushing away chips, improving surface finish, and preventing corrosion. The history section notes that cutting fluids were first reported in 1894 and initially involved the use of water and later lard as lubricants. The types of cutting fluids section identifies the main categories as water-based emulsions, straight mineral oils, and mineral oils with additives.

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Cutting Fluid For Machining

The document provides an introduction to cutting fluids, which are liquids used in metalworking operations to reduce friction, remove heat, improve tool life, and flush away chips. Cutting fluids come in various categories like straight oils, soluble oils, and synthetic fluids. They help maintain expensive machinery by flushing away chips, improving surface finish, and preventing corrosion. The history section notes that cutting fluids were first reported in 1894 and initially involved the use of water and later lard as lubricants. The types of cutting fluids section identifies the main categories as water-based emulsions, straight mineral oils, and mineral oils with additives.

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Chapter one

1.1 Introduction to cutting fluid

Cutting fluids are liquid used in metalworking operations for reducing friction between
the work piece and the tool and for removal of the heat generated by the friction. Cutting fluids
are used in metal machining for a variety of reasons such as improving tool life, reducing
workpiece thermal deformation, improving surface finish and flushing away chips from the
cutting zone. It also helps in shaping and cutting of metals. These fluids are usually used during
the cutting operations or machining. Machinery and equipment are quite expensive and are
important assets of the workshop, factory or company. Cutting fluids are a fantastic solution to
improving and increasing the life of the tools and also reducing permanent damage to the
machinery, this is done by flushing away chips from the cutting zone and improving surface
finish. These fluids come in a variety of categories like straight oils, soluble oils, semi synthetic
fluids, synthetic fluids and more. These fluids remove the corrosion and rust from the surface of
the metal of the machine and equipment and thus help in maintain them and enhancing their
efficiency and life. These fluids should definitely be used if you want to maintain your expensive
machinery and equipment and also save it from permanent damage. Cutting fuels are also helpful
in shaping and cutting of metals. Thus they have multiple purposes and usages and are primarily
used to sharpen the metals and help in keeping them from away from rust and arrest corrosion.
Thus it is very advisable to go for these cutting fluids as they will help you save on maintenance
cost and will also help in increasing the life of your machinery and equipment.
For some machining operations including sawing, turning, processing, drilling and grinding,
cutting fluids can be utilized to enable higher cutting speed to be utilized, to increase the cutting
tool life, and, to some degree lessen the tool-work surface grating amid machining. The fluid is
utilized as a coolant and furthermore greases up the cutting surfaces. But, cutting fluid and
coolant are two different products. There are quite a few functions performed by cutting fluid.
Keeping the workpiece and tools cool is one such function. Most of the cutting fluids utilized are
fluids as extended mineral oils or potentially manufactured fluids, which emulsify in water.
These fluids can be connected as a pumped stream or through an oil mist with the help of
compressed air. Various specific machining operations utilize infused gasses (compacted air or
latent gasses). Strong or paste cutting substances are additionally utilized which incorporate
greases, pastes, waxes, soaps, graphite based substances. Cutting fluids increase the tool life and
improve the efficiency of the production systems providing both cooling and lubricating the
work surface. Cutting fluids are extensively used in drilling operations as it removes chips from
inside the holes, thus preventing drill breakage. Higher surface finish quality and better
dimensional accuracy are also obtained from cutting fluids.

1.2 History of cutting fluid

The use of cutting fluids in metal cutting was first reported in 1894 by F. Taylor who noticed that
cutting speed could be increased up to 33% without reducing tool life by applying large amounts
of water in the cutting zone. When cutting fluids first started being used water was the most
logical choice, for with the heat and friction caused by metalworking the first instinct was to cool
it off with water. It was quickly found, however, that water made the metal machine parts rust
fairly quickly. Soda water was the next step, and helped with the rust problem though it didn’t do
much for lubrication. When someone actually figured that putting grease on the machine parts
would help, lard became the lubricant of choice. There are references as well to red and white
lead being mixed into lard oil to make it more malleable, but that practice was discontinued due
to the discovered toxicity of lead.

1.3 Types of cutting fluid

Most commonly used cutting fluids either aqueous based solutions or cutting oils fall into three
categories, water based emulsions, straight mineral oils and mineral oils with additives

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