Extend Your Coolant Life With Simple Maintenance Tips
When charging a machine sump, make sure the sump is clean. Adding new coolant on top of old coolant remnants is a bad practice. If you don’t have a lot of time to tear down a system for a deep clean, you can use a sump cleaner on top of your old coolant like our Astro-Clean A. Add 3-5% of sump volume, run for a min. of 24 hours, then dump, rinse and recharge. Frequent checks of the coolant concentration (several times per week) using a refractometer is probably the best thing you can do to maintain coolant quality. You can use our Coolant Calculator on our website, to convert your brix reading to percentage. Read more…