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what can water cut??
boggle - 11/3/10 at 10:01 PM

was just looking on youtube and found this

water mania

we have the 87k dynamic waterjet....

maybe i should do this to my bosses laptop?????

02GF74 - 11/3/10 at 10:05 PM

is it really just water?

I understood, and it may be wrong, that there water is mixed with fine abrasive whcih does the cutting/grinding.

boggle - 11/3/10 at 10:09 PM

it has a mixture of garnet @80mesh fed through a metering disk, but at 87,000psi the water only will cut ali up to 4mm and woods, paper and textiles.....

and body parts too....

[Edited on 11/3/10 by boggle]

Thinking about it - 11/3/10 at 10:10 PM

Well it cut all the ceilings out of my sisters house, having had 64000 lts pas through a burst pipe in the loft during the cold snap over Christmas

02GF74 - 11/3/10 at 10:13 PM

I wonder if you could sharpen a piece of ice to cut your wrists? will leave the polize puzzled looking for the weapon.

any volunteers?

andyw7de - 11/3/10 at 10:14 PM

quote:
Originally posted by 02GF74
is it really just water?

I understood, and it may be wrong, that there water is mixed with fine abrasive whcih does the cutting/grinding.


Perfectly correct, a fine garnet mixed with water at 65000 psi through a .75mm nozzle.

We have cut mobile phones in half

Will cut virtually anything apart from toughened glass, it just shatters.

Any metal, plastic, stone, ceramics ordinary glass etc etc

cheers

Andy

boggle - 11/3/10 at 10:16 PM

ive not tried cutting ice.....

the water is pretty warm as it leaved the mixing tube so not sure if it would work??

you could just lay someone up on there and pierce holes in them for fun???

therapy?

a band from back in the day...loved the album trouble gum....

boggle - 11/3/10 at 10:20 PM

quote:
Originally posted by andyw7de
quote:
Originally posted by 02GF74
is it really just water?

I understood, and it may be wrong, that there water is mixed with fine abrasive whcih does the cutting/grinding.


Perfectly correct, a fine garnet mixed with water at 65000 psi through a .75mm nozzle.

We have cut mobile phones in half

Will cut virtually anything apart from toughened glass, it just shatters.

Any metal, plastic, stone, ceramics ordinary glass etc etc

cheers

Andy


are you using a 10/30 setup??

we have 15/40 on the 87000...have you tried diamond orrifaces over ruby yet??

andyw7de - 11/3/10 at 10:48 PM

are you using a 10/30 setup??

we have 15/40 on the 87000...have you tried diamond orrifaces over ruby yet??




I dont really get that involved with set up stuff thats my operators job.

I just use it after hours to play with and do stuff for guys on here

I do know that we use diamond orrifaces as i bought new ones last year

We dont have the fancy dynamic heads, although we had the guys in from flow trying to sell me a new machine, and it did look impressive.

Steve Hignett - 11/3/10 at 11:14 PM

quote:
Originally posted by andyw7de
quote:
Originally posted by 02GF74
is it really just water?

I understood, and it may be wrong, that there water is mixed with fine abrasive whcih does the cutting/grinding.


Perfectly correct, a fine garnet mixed with water at 65000 psi through a .75mm nozzle.

We have cut mobile phones in half

Will cut virtually anything apart from toughened glass, it just shatters.

Any metal, plastic, stone, ceramics ordinary glass etc etc

cheers

Andy


AND Carbon/Kevlar

keithice - 12/3/10 at 02:29 AM

quote:
Originally posted by 02GF74
I wonder if you could sharpen a piece of ice to cut your wrists? will leave the polize puzzled looking for the weapon


old "Tales of the unexpected" where a policeman who's having an affair is killed by his wife using a frozen leg of lamb as a club... she then puts it in the oven to roast and goes out... when she comes home and "discovers" her dead husband his colleagues end up eating the murder weapon.... keith

Vindi_andy - 12/3/10 at 02:13 PM

i dont know about sharpening it to cut your wrist, but you could certainly make a spike from ice, like an icicle, find a soft area to insert it with enough force could prove lethal

cd.thomson - 12/3/10 at 02:20 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Vindi_andy
find a soft area to insert it with enough force could prove lethal



eww... gaaaaaaayy

scootz - 13/3/10 at 01:07 PM

... it can cut my toes!

Remember working as a labourer during the school hols many years ago. Thought it would be an idea to clean the toe-caps of my wellies using the powerwasher I was playing with... punched a hole straight through the rubber and sliced my big toe wide open!