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metarinka


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We have two Flow Mach 3 machines, we cut a lot of PVC and acrylic, the problem is we end up with nasty grey foam that floats on the top of the tank. We have abrasive recycling systems but obviously they aren't meant to handle floating solids.  Is there any good technique to removing the foam?  Currently we use just a pool skimmer type wand and obviously it takes forever and doesn't do a great job.



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Seanr900


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we flood the tank above the support slats, and use a pool skimmer to get slime out. most of our cutting lately has been foams and plywood. hardly any sinking debris. this is the best method we have found, it still takes about an hour to clean it all out.

let me know if you have found a better way of doing this.

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I usually remove some of the slats in the opposite corner of the water pick-up for our filtration system to allow my pool skimmer access. Also we use a closed-loop system, so I tend to put a filter bag over the water pick-up tube until the plastic has been removed from the cut tank to avoid gunking up my filters prematurely.



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