Some of you I'm sure are aware of these, I'm actually considering the water jet
https://ksr-video.imgix.net/projects/2567739/video-704119-h264_high.mp4
https://advancedidentification.net/plate-deep-etching
Some of you I'm sure are aware of these, I'm actually considering the water jet
https://ksr-video.imgix.net/projects/2567739/video-704119-h264_high.mp4
https://advancedidentification.net/plate-deep-etching
Last edited by Kev Williams; 03-30-2019 at 2:22 PM.
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ELEVEN - rotary cutter tool machines
FOUR - CO2 lasers
THREE- make that FOUR now - fiber lasers
ONE - vinyl cutter
CASmate, Corel, Gravostyle
While that waterjet is super cool, the material costs are bonkers. I want to say it was like $40 in grit alone to make the sprocket they showed in the vid!
Was is the cost? I am sure the grit is filtered and re-used. So neither the used water or grit can be used over, and the cost is around $8,000. The website is realistic unlike the GlowForge one.
Last edited by Bill George; 04-01-2019 at 1:39 PM.
Retired Guy- Central Iowa.HVAC/R , Cloudray Galvo Fiber , -Windows 10
I will have to go find that video or two, but a you tuber put a few short videos out about making a water jet machine with the parts from an electric pressure washer. It worked quite well for the small amount he had in it.
From their Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...et-cutter/faqs
They say the grit should not be reused, and in low quantities they plan on selling it for roughly $0.75/lb. From their main page they give some grit usage estimates. The sprocket used 56 lbs of grit, so $42 worth of grit during the 168 minute cut.
I'm sure many people can get lots of usage out of it, especially for rapid prototyping of stuff you'd later get cut with a more commercial operation, but it's pretty expensive to run. I think I read somewhere it uses more grit per inch of cut than industrial machines due to lower overall pressures, but then again it's not competing against industrial machines- it's trying to fill a niche.
That was Applied Science:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg__B6Ca3jc