From: Greg (czechsix@cox.net)
Date: Sat Jun 14 2003 - 11:42:02 PDT
Hi Fred,
Explosive forming for amateurs. I seem to remember a web page that someone
had where they were experimenting at home with explosive forming. I think
they were using water baths and dynamite. Didn't work perfectly, but it was
pretty interesting.
It would have been interesting to have been their neighbours.
Greg
Vista,CA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Martin" <mung@in-touch.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 9:26 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] M35 compressor wrench
> 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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