T-Slot Covers For Milling Machines
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With thousands of installations across the globe, experience the difference our T-Slot Covers make for yourself!
The Octane Chip Guard is designed to save you time! T-slot tables have been a staple for years, with almost every machine built today utilizing them. While being extremely versatile, chips filling the grooves has always been a problem. Made from high temperature silicone, the Chip Guard is durable, washable, flexible, and looks great installed. We routinely dry machine with red hot chips, rest assured, the Chip Guard can handle anything you throw at it.
Operator morale and safety will improve as chips can be washed away with ease. Even with safety glasses, ricocheting chips can easily cause an accident which could be costly for everyone involved.
Installation-No special tools are needed to install
1.To Start-Measure the length you need and trim with a utility knife.
2.Preparation-Apply a rust preventative to the t-slot and along the cover, this protects your bare metal surfaces and aids in installation. We recommend LPS3 or similar.
3.Installation-Pinch the flexible legs and press straight down into the t-slot. If the Chip Guard is difficult to install, place one end in the t-slot. Next, pull the opposite end with your free hand and begin pressing the Chip Guard along the groove from the starting side. Stretching the Chip Guard in this way reduces its width for the perfect fit. We prefer to press the Chip Guard until it is flush with the t-slots chamfer. The compressed silicone will retain itself for a very secure hold.
Customer Reviews
I notice the small things most don’t think about. Picking chips out the T-Slot after a job is annoying! Especially long running jobs. Blowing a part off and having chips fly at your face is also annoying. This product, as simple as it looks, saves me time, saves my company money and keeps our machines looking clean. This is a must have!
These have made my lift so much easier. As I do a lot of aluminium which gets everywhere these chip guards have made clean ups so much easier!! Check the video to see how clean my table is after my chip fan! I would 100% recommend !!
There are things in life that you wonder how you ever lived without; Octane Workholding T-slot covers is one of them. Keeping a machine clean so easily makes anyone's day better. The T-slot covers are very easy to work with and cut with a good pair of scissors and remain secured in place once installed. We will often cut harder steels dry throwing hot chips and I had concerns about these sticking to the T-slot covers but they have held up great and can easily be reused on different parts of the table when the workholding changes.
You have to see the video to understand just how effective these T-slot covers are with the compliment of a chipfan. The attached photo of the bare machine table shows the table with the vises and covers removed after running that part, no hose down and no airgun, it's that easy to keep your machine clean.
We have these T-Slot covers in both of our mills. They work amazing and now we don't need to spend hours cleaning the slots for new T-Nuts. What are you waiting for?
@Shore Machining-With one stunning setup! Thanks for your review!
These chip guards are the greatest. They keep the chips out of the slots, keep the work area really clean, and they add some nice custom color the table. I couldn’t believe how easy these were to press into the slots and pull out to move around. I have a couple of extra pieces that I cut to different sizes that I can swap in and out depending on where I need to place mounts or vice. A couple of smaller cuts keep the chips from getting under my vice at the mounts.
These are a ‘must have’ for any machine shop. I never run my mill without them now. Even when I’m using coolant, I can press the guards down below the surface of the table to direct the coolant through the slots. It keeps all the chips on top and makes it very easy to clean up afterwards.
