Have you tried water only - no abrasive? On Oct 21, 2012 2:24 PM, "Viesturs Lācis" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello! > > I have a problem with cutting thin (0,5 mm) metal sheet on waterjet - > it creates a sharp barb (sorry, I do not know correct word in English) > on the bottom side of the cut all along the cut path. I have seen this > only on thin metals. For 3 mm thick metal bottom side is fine and > beautiful. > > The thing is that these parts have to be placed atop on each other in > blocks of 200 parts and even more, so the bottom side has to be > smooth. Currently they are cutting those parts by hand, but they want > to reduce the amount of hand labor. Laser and plasma have been > rejected as they burn off the protective coating on material, but test > cuts on waterjet have that sharp barb on the bottom that I have seen > also in other cases, when I was cutting sheets of thin metal. > > I know that some LinuxCNC users have experience with waterjets. Can > anyone suggest me something to fix that? Is it depending on garment > size of abrasive? > Slower feedrates have already been tried. > > -- > Viesturs > > If you can't fix it, you don't own it. > http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
