From: Jim Newton (jnewton@laurel.com)
Date: Fri Jun 13 2003 - 11:58:30 PDT
Hi Fred...
Are you familiar with water jet cutting? It is pretty amazing. It
uses a high-pressure focused jet of water with abrasive power embedded
in it, and it can cut any material (steel, aluminum, cloth, leather,
rubber, glass, stone, brick, foam, wood, you name it) and can cut very
thick pieces, depending on the machine, up to even a foot. Water jet
cutting is very cheap compared to laser and torch cutting, and the
pieces are so clean that there is usually no need to do any clean up
on the finished parts. There is no heat distortion as occurs with
torch and laser cutting. You just supply the shop with a CAD or DXF
file and they do the rest. Shops that do this are quite common.
>Yep, Joe...you got the idea. I have a machine called a Heath Ultragraph
>that is a template controlled torch that would burn them out...cheap,
>accurate and faster than hell. Probably with acetylene/oxygen, plate or
> flat stock...you could burn out a TON of them in a days time. You just
>have to make a ferrous metal template first...usually out of sheet
>metal. Fred M<artin
>
>MVTrucker@aol.com wrote:
>> Johb Souza John.Souza@ci.fresno.ca.us still has some @ $25.
>> Excellent quality and a little longer handle than the originals. I cut a wrench out of 3/8" steel plate for the back
>> flange.
>> Joe Young
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