Finally to the cutting stage for the new struts for my full sheet LR3 @DougJoseph won the strut contest with @vicious1 coming in for an awesome back strut. Started cutting the back strut last night. Was going great until it wasn’t. 5 broken bits later I finally got it moving smoothly again. One…

My spoilboard is mdf. You aren’t using much ipa. Basically just enough that you can see it hit the aluminum then it evaporates. My mdf never gets wet. Very fine mist. That’s all that is needed to keep the aluminum ice cold. I run my air regulator at about 20 psi and then just adjust the ipa valve on…

I’m hoping to be cutting a few aluminum parts for the V5 either Friday or Saturday and if that works out I’ll take some video on how I set it and how the mist looks on the aluminum. Hopefully that will help take some guess work out of it

Did you buy your sheets of aluminum locally or online? Would love to get some learning done on aluminum!

I go to a local welding shop and get drops usually. Aluminum isn’t cheap but it’s not terrible if you don’t need a bunch

[image] Jonathan Jones: Mist Coolant Lubrication Spray… Amazon.com The tubing… Utah Pneumatic 5/16 Or 8mm Air… Amazon.com The regulator… PneumaticPlus SAW2000M-N02BG… Amazon.com Thanks Jonathan! Just ordered these for my LR4. Since it’s been a while and you’ve used your mister a bunc…

[image] Kyle Reese: Thanks Jonathan! Just ordered these for my LR4. Since it’s been a while and you’ve used your mister a bunch, is there anything else you’d get, or something else you wish you got instead? No problem. Glad the info was here to help! No I don’t think I would change anything…

[image] Kyle Reese: is there anything else you’d get… An inline shutoff valve at the table is handy to have

Both of mine have shutoff valves built in, and a liquid flow valve.

[image] Bartman: [image] azab2c: is there anything else you’d get… An inline shutoff valve at the table is handy to have That’s a good suggestion. I completely forgot about that part. I have air ran through my garage and I tee’d off of that and put a ball valve and a regulator/water …

[image] Ryan: shutoff valves built in If you mean the two needle valves on the mister ( one for air, one for oil/ alcohol), a separate air shutoff valve is handy, because you don’t have to readjust the needle valves at the start/restart of each job. YMMV…