It's time to have your sump inspected...

  • Posted on: 13 August 2012
  • By: Editor

A sump clean-out by an untrained hand can be painful, and if it doesn't get done right, you'll being doing it again too soon.  Lucky for you, the doctor is in.  The SUMPDOC that is.  Eriez's new portable recycling system has the look of a serious machine - just like this nurse.  But the SUMPDOC is a lot more likely to get the job done with less pain.  We have seen portable tank-side recycling efforts over the years, but this one is at least the largest.  A hand driven pallet truck is needed to move the beast into a free space by the machine that you better have.  When you set in down, your going to need compressed air, electricity, and a water source. The machine has a sump vac mode, a filtration mode, and a coolant makeup mode.  Solids get trapped in a 60-micron polyester bag and coolant returns to the sump for continuous operation of the machine tool.  It has on-board everything including an air-operated diaphragm pump, centrifuge, oil coalescer, refractometer, and an electrical control “dash board" to run it all.  We haven't seen it in person yet, but it looks really impressive in the pictures.  If you have distributed tanks, you need a tank side rejuvenation system, or your going to have a coolant salesman for a BFF.