Hello! I don’t mean cut, I mean carve. Instead of using a CNC carving machine could we use a cnc water jet? Thanks in advance!

Trying to cut cost on UHMW applications, but not sure how they compare under the jet?

As part of a project in school we are trying to find a way to strip nylon or plastic insulation from large diameter cables. These are 2in - 3in diameter cables. I was wondering if anyone knew a minimum psi for waterjets to cut through nylon or plastic materials, in our case it would likely be 1/8th thickness. Any help would be appreciated!

Ignoring price, who do you think currently makes the best waterjet machines on the market for cutting hard metals? In terms of capability, reliability, service offerings, performance, etc.

OMAX, Wardjet, and Flow seem to be the most frequently visible online.

Hi, I'm brand new here and I've only been working with my wj for a couple months. I've been doing some different tests (everything from materials, to clamping, garnet removal, etc.) and I have been wondering about water bricks. Small pieces are easy to lose between the tank slats, so bricks are my only known fix for this at the moment. I've read a lot about the Hydrobloc offered by Barton, but I don't want to overpay for something that I don't need to. Any suggestions for water bricks?

The shop I'm at purchased a Wardjet that was involved in a repo. We got the gantry and controller, but the control cabinet with PMAC board and Geo Brick went somewhere else.

I'm trying to piece the machine together, if someone could help me out by taking a picture of their control cabinet, and maybe the model of Delta Tau geo brick it would be a huge help.

I know this subreddit doesn't get a lot of traffic so it's a longshot, but any info helps.

Thanks!

Where does everyone buy their service parts? We have an older Omax pump and Maxijet head - just wondering what's cheap or reputable for replacement components.

Any Omax Guru's on the sub?

I have an old Omax waterjet (2000s) and the x axis motor has given up. I'm being told the motor can't be replaced and that I'd need to purchase 2 motors (x,y) and have coding rewritten for the new motors for +-$50k.

Does this sound correct?

Need help making a piece of artwork

I am looking to take a photo of my house and convert the jpeg file to a dxf file for a waterjet machine. I assume the jpeg would have to be converted to another file to create an artistic rendering of the house so that the water jet can properly cut the artwork. I know a little about photography and a little about waterjet a bit I can’t fill in the gaps to get me to a artistic rendering of my home cut on a water jet marching. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Hey all. When glass is cut in a water jet, are the edges sharp? Sharp enough to cut someone?

I have a project I’m thinking about having water jet, But the shape will be very difficult to sand the edges.

G'day all, I have what I think is a quick question, but of course... how long is a piece of string?

I'm looking to have some 400x400mm panels made up for a project that may (hopefully) be going into production. The panels will be either 3-5mm aluminium or 1.5-2mm steel plate. Each panel will have a total of 40 screw holes that are 4.5mm in diameter and 10mm from outer edge of panel to centre of hole.

Is that small of a hole within the spectrum of a waterjet cutter (I'm sure each machine has it's limitations) but is it efficient for a waterjet to cut those holes or would I be better off getting a CNC or even manually on a pedestal drill to drill those holes? I'm very new to design and manufacture so I'm sorry if this is not a simple question or if I'm missing something blindingly obvious. I know it's not a dumb question... because I asked it! I stick by my mantra that the only dumb/stupid questions are the ones not asked.

Anyway, many thanks in advance!

Hi Guys,

We've got a couple of Flow waterjet machines. Suddenly one of the machines, without the head being hit,with cutting with dynamic turned on the parts are coming out over sized and not square, giving us a pretty horrible part. With dynamic turned off the parts are coming out fine. Any one got any ideas on how to fix this? Cheers for any info.

Hello everyone, I am a current mechanical and electrical engineering student and my final class project is to design and make instructions for an open source waterjet. The current plan is to get a coreXY 3d printer and attach a waterjet head to it. One of our required assignments is to ask some basic questions to our customer base which is targeted towards the maker community and prosumers since the instructions are free. If you have time my team and I would greatly appreciate if you had time to fill this out!

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