From: Fred Martin (mung@in-touch.net)
Date: Sat Jun 14 2003 - 09:26:37 PDT
Hi Jim, sounds exotic...seems like I read about water jet cutting years
ago in a trade publication...but guess I more or less forgot about it.
Also the Hypertech plasma machine out in the shop is the nearest thing
to magic I've seen. Brings to mind a system that they were working on
where they used explosive charge to form parts. Anyone have any input on
it?
PS New military weapon...the water jet cannon...cuts a tank in to or
bodies...a whole company deep. Snipers use it to cut off both trigger
fingers. They'd have to outlaw it cause some ornery american would be
shooting phalluses and gonads. What a war deterrent! Hmmmm! Fred Martin
Jim Newton wrote:
> 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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