Re: Waterjet on a cnc knee mill

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "Dan Mauch" <dmauch@s...> wrote:

> Waterjet using a knee mill
> I get various technical publications and in Modern Application News

I read

> an interesting article about a company that developed a waterjet

that uses

> common cnc knee mills to control the XYZ axis. What really makes this
> interesting is they use round steel ball tor dissipate the waterjet

stream

> as it exist the part. The other interesting aspect was that they use

shop

> air to power the water jet intensifier. The nozzle is simply

inserted into

> the spindle.
>

http://www.manufacturingcenter.com/man/articles/1005/1005package_converts.asp

>
> Read the other interesting features at the above url.
> Last I was surpised that it only uses 20,000 PSI than the normal

40-50,000

> PSI
> Dan Mauch
> www.camtronics-cnc.com

I didn't see how the intensifier works. It would seem that trading a
20k PSI pump for a 20hp compressor would not be advantageous.

Anyone on here have a home-brew water-jet ?
or, know how 20k would work to cut ?


Dave