Why Unist
for MQL?

With the Unist coolant, you can clean the saw with a vacuum cleaner. Nothing gets impacted. It's a dry chip. It's nice. The guys like it because before they'd have to wear leather aprons so they wouldn't get this flood coolant all over their clothes." "The fact that we no longer have this pile of floor dry around every saw and no coolant dripping around the shop is a small thing, but it adds up for an overall neater appearance." "One of the things that throws people off initially is the price of the lubricant, but on all these tools we run, I order a gallon about twice a year." "I wish there were more companies like Unist to work with. They're the best. Everything they do is accurate and clearly understood." (excerpts from Modern Metals Magazine's article 'Stemming the Flood' - Modern Metals, October 2012)

As a manufacture of CNC router machines supplying a wide variety of industries, we have tried a number of lubricating units. We have found the Unist lubricating system to be more easily integrated into the machine design and the support provided by Unist is very good. The units have proved to be very reliable in the field and they are well suited for continuous industrial use.

In regards to the performance of Unist MQL Systems, Both Armo and Abuma believe it is an excellent product and well worth the investment. Over the past few years we have implemented Unist systems on metal cutting saws, milling and drilling machines. We have seen considerable improvements in productivity, tool life and machine cleanliness. We have been able to eliminate coolant usage almost entirely. We employ skilled Machinists and Toolmakers that have 20 plus years of industry experience that prefer this product over traditional coolants. After the initial investment the cost to operate these systems is very small. The cutting fluid is applied in very precise volumes and location on the cutting tool. Very little fluid is consumed, 4 liters of Unist Coolube under most conditions last for months. One of the most obvious advantages of Unist MQL systems over coolant is machine cleanliness. Not only does the machine stay very clean, so does the entire work area and work pieces. The metal chips are very easily cleaned up as they are not covered in sticky residues. I recommend this product. It is definitely worth a trial.

After changing from flood coolant to a Unist Coolubricator^® and Coolube^® 2210AL lubricant on our Brother TC-32A, we were able to increase our effective tap life from 450 pieces per tap to 1500 pieces per tap. The tap is an M4 x 0.7 bottoming cut tap in CF-8 stainless steel. We are happy with how clean the parts are as well but the increase in tap life is what pleased us the most.

I have run a test surface with your Unist spray mist oil unit with great results; I attached some pictures for your reference. We run this surface with different parameters and step over techniques using a .500 ball end mill with high Rpm and Feed rates, we found the tool condition to be still very good considering that this material was 13-8 with a Rockwell hardness of 44. The more I use this system the more I like it!” “We used a regular 1/2 diameter carbide ball end mill coated TIAN on our new HX400 Kitamura multi-axis machine with a 25000 RPM balance shrink fit holder, we rough this surface with multiple depth passes of .075 and a step over of .15 @ S6000 and a feed rate of 25 IPM. On the finishing we had a .025 depth cut all across the surface with a .007 step over with 14000 RPM and a feed of 80 ipm. Then we tried to get an even better finish so we machine 1/2 of this surface with a .010 depth cut with a step over of .003 that produced an excellent finish with 16000 RPM and a Feed rate of 120 IPM. This was a great test for us because it will introduce us to hard milling and possible new business.

After looking at the data it appears we are close to 3 times the tool life. 2.0 high feed cutter went from 2 hours of insert life to almost 7 hours. 10mm ball went from 6 hours to 16 hours” "I used to buy tooling every week before installing the Revolution system. Now I buy the tooling to run the same jobs monthly." "Since we do a lot of lights out machining I used to come in to the shop in the morning to foamy overflowing coolant, since we switched to the Revolution from Unist we've had no problems.

Before we started using Coolube 2210 we were going through one gallon a week of the AccuLube, since we have been using your product we are going through one gallon every month. The life of our drills have also increased. Before the Coolube 2210 we were using seven drills per shift, currently we are using two drills per shift. Overall we are very pleased with the performance of your product.

We recently converted two of our Hemsaw bandsaws to use the Unist Saw Blade Lube System. At first we were skeptical that they would be able to deliver the same performance as the coolant we ran previously. It's been a real shift in mindset for our operators that 'less is more' with the Unist systems. We're happy to report that we've been able to get the same or better blade life and productivity out of the Saw Blade Lube Systems while eliminating the maintenance problems we had with flood coolant. Cleanup is much easier around the saws and the shavings are nice and dry. Before the (Unist) systems, we spent a lot of money on gloves to protect us from the coolant and we've been able to eliminate that cost. We have six saws total and plan to convert the remaining four to Unist and are recommending them to our second facility.

In February of 1999, We purchased our first uni-MAX Serv-O-Sprayer. We purchased the unit in hopes it would help solve a problem. We were having to run parts in a basket to let the oil drain before packaging, and reduce the amount of oil on the floor around the tapper. We started using the uni-MAX serv-o-sprayer in March of that year. The parts were much cleaner and we found that we were using much less lubricant and the taps were lasting longer. We were also able to increase our production by eliminating the need to drain the parts before packing. We updated our second tapper in February of 2000 with the same results as the first one. In September of 2000 we quoted a job that had in die tapping. We chose to try the uni-MAX Serv-O-Sprayer instead of flooding the tooling with lubricant. We tap 8 holes in a progressive die at 60 SPM. We are getting excellent tap life with this system. We also have a forming problem with a progressive die that runs .250 thick material. We had a problem keeping lube on one form station that was causing us a lot of maintenance time. We installed a uni-MAX Serv-O-Sprayer and shot a few drops or lubricant on the strip at the bend station solving the maintenance problem.

We have had these sprayers in house now for one year we started with one, we now have four. These units have helped us increase our tool life on our Spring Generator machines by up to 60%. They have greatly reduced the heat build up in the forming process of our springs and have allowed us to reduce the number of tool changes on a run, which has allowed us to reduce our cost. The pay back on the capital expense for all four machines was less then three months. We have a total of 13 machines that we are looking at installing more of these units on as we upgrade them. When we added the units to the process we did not have to change or add any steps in our process. Parts were inspected at an outside lab to ensure they still met our specification. We passed all test with better marks then with out the units.