RE: Water Jet

Dan,

You are thinking heavy industrial. I have more in mind a small hobby unit.
My idea is much like Mario in that I want to cut things like balsa upto
3/16" and maybe carbon laminates up to .020".

I have no clue what type of pressure or volume this would require. I wonder
if good pressure washer with a 0 deg nozzle would be enough? I somewhere
remember reading that they use a polymer additive in the water to reduce the
divergence of the spray. Anyone know anything about this? Also, I am not
quite sure if cutting balsa how to support it? I imagine that you need to
have no obstructions under the material being cut in the path of the water
stream?

More things to play with and no time.


Tim
[Denver, CO]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Mauch [mailto:dmauch@...]
> Sent: Sunday, August 08, 1999 7:51 AM
> To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@onelist.com
> Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Water Jet
>
>
> From: "Dan Mauch" <dmauch@...>
>
> What does a waterjet cutting machine run? I would suspect that if they are
> the abrasive type they probably run $50K. For just the waterjet portion.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TheDragonPit <dragonpit@...>
> To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@onelist.com <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@onelist.com>
> Date: Sunday, August 08, 1999 5:37 AM
> Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Water Jet
>
>
> >From: "TheDragonPit" <dragonpit@...>
> >
> >Hello every buddy been lurking for few days trying to decide if I want to
> set up linux maybe, I've done it a few times but its been a while, well on
> to the point. I run a small welding shop here in Texas where I
> have a built
> a cutting torch, and a small router
> >that I've been running with Stepster. I was looking into setting up a
> laser to do cutting with but have since decide to go with water jet. Just
> thought I'd throw the option out there for thought.
> >Henry Bawcum
> >
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