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Fun with the waterjet
DrewKaree:
--- Quote from: Drifter on April 02, 2006, 09:22:45 am ---
Wow, you guys are rough.
I dug thru my pics and I don't have any of the WJ cutting the wood, but I did have this pic that I took at the shop one day.
OK, so here is the deal... if I get a short video clip of the thing cutting the wood for a cabinet this week and post it, will I be redeemed?
--- End quote ---
If by rough you mean "deploy peer pressure to obtain waterjet cheesecake", then I'm guilty ;D I'd feel bad, but it worked, so I'm conflicted......nah, I think I'll do it again if you don't post the video ;)
You HAVE to get us the video since you just rubbed our faces in it. Anything less makes you a nancy and unworthy of our adulation.
:cheers:
Drifter:
So here is a link to a very bad video that I took with a cheap handheld digital camera... but I think you can get the point ...
I was at the thing most of the day yesterday cutting out a few bartop machines and a jukebox cabinet. I also took some time to make myself some extra blank control panel boards for the bartop. I've been thinking it would be cool to add a trackball to one ...
To answer a few questions;
Yes I am cutting wood. Melamine is a laminated particle board. We set the jet to cut quickly so that it doesn't spend too much time in one spot. We also add an aggrigate made of granite dust to the stream (this is the same thing we add when cutting steel). As an added measure, we set the water level under the material so that it is below the wood so it doesn't saturate. Then we get the cut pieces off the table as quickly as possible and hit them with compressed air to get the damp edges dried quickly.
One other thing to remember is that the stream is coming out of the end of the nozzle at Mach 2 so it goes thru the wood without an issue. The edges are nice and smooth when we are done.
We did find that if we dont use aggrigate, or if the aggrigate fails to feed for any reason, that the stream will only go part of the way thru. This destroys the wood. We did MDF once and the aggrigate stopped feeding... what we were left with was wet cardboard.
Now that I have redeemed myself from Nancy status... where is the adulation? ;)
MYX:
Adule... Adule...Adule
That's really cool. How do you tell it what to do. How do you feed it measurements? If you wanted rounded edges (no not beveled) Curved edges how would you tell it that?
If you wanna reach SUPER ADULATION, next time use a tripod, but this will do, thanks for the video. That is cool.
If you have to add the granite dust, roughly what is the cost to cut a CP top out?
nostrebor:
Cool.
DrewKaree:
You are now teh kewl. You may walk freely amongst our peoples. ;)
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