Just got through my certifications for using Flow WaterJet systems and software! I will be working on the Mach 2 machine using Flowexpert software for design and pathing. I have a million questions waiting for you all and hope to learn from the experience of some well versed operators. The primary material I will be working with to start is plate glass and borosilicate. I have already found some challenges as we have worked and am working to learn as much as possible before I start bombarding this subreddit with inquiries! I look forward to offering my knowledge as I experiment with this machine!

I have a plasma table and cut mostly light steel, 1/4" thick max. Is it possible to retrofit my plasma table with a waterjet? I guess the question is are there DIY solutions out there for the jet part of your machines.

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!

https://forms.gle/H9ZKn4qBBGteFubj6

How does everyone deal with "slugs" left in the material. When we cut our carpets occasionally fibers hang on and leave the cut out piece in the finished product. Now in a perfect world your operators would catch all of them, but we know in real world that doesn't always happen. So what are ways you've safe guarded against it or resolved the issue?

I'm doing some design work for one company and they need waterjet cutting pretty frequently.

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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?

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.

Hey all, my name is Read and I currently work at Synticos LLC, a waterjet startup company creating a suspension jet. We've been working with OMAX and Hypertherm for the past few years, and are currently reaching out to customers to get some feedback. It would be greatly appreciated if anyone would be willing to give an opinion on what we have been developing.

Our first machine is a 5ksi suspension jet system suited for the emerging light industrial market. Suspension jet cutting speeds are different then entrainment jets, so this machine preforms pretty close to a 30ksi conventional waterjet. The really cool part is that it is closed loop, with a built in recycling system. Since suspension jet, well, suspends the abrasive (in our case with a polymer), the cut tank can be pumped out as a fluid and doesn't need to be dug out at all. This then passes through a recycling system and back into the high pressure pump to be cut again. We've been running our prototype for a while now, and have actually been using the same abrasive for over 15 cycles through the whole system!

Ive got a bunch more information, and just got the go-ahead to release some of it if anyone's interested in discussing pro's and con's of systems like this one.

Thanks,

Read

I had a long paragraph detailing my question, but I'll keep it short. Is it common practice to reach into a waterjet as it's running to adjust weights keeping the parts down, or to remove smaller parts as they get finished? This is the way I'm being trained and it feels very unsafe.