Skill of the day

[Banjo]

We have an Omax Water-jet machine at work, and today I started to learn how to use it. It's really cool. I will soon be able to make all sorts of pieces and brackets... This could be good.
Next up.... the TIG welder.
Likin' the new job.

 

[DrEntropy]

Apparently!!

"Heavy metal"!!! :laugh: :thumbsup:

 

[Gliderman8]

Who needs a water-jet to work on LBC's? All you need is the water... it will take care of everything

 

[elrey]

WHAT!! :shocked: I thought everybody hate dey job, wifes a #%&!, and dey kids all messed up! What's yer problem? --elrey

 

[Banjo]

Spent the whole day cuttin out parts and pieces on the water-jet. Still pretty cool. We've got a bit of a backlog right now on parts needed to be cut on it, so since I'm now basically trained on it ( I only need assistance if something I haven't encountered yet happens), I have a few days of overtime comin'...I can use it right now.
But.... I gotta drag my butt outta bed at o-dark hundred for the next few days.
Time to rip a "drive to work" cd to get me going.

 

[DNK]

Ben, that's "O dark Thirty"

 

[PAUL161]

Banjo, How much water pressure does that machine produce to cut steel? I saw this operation once on a construction job I was on when they cut a boiler in half in a refinery. <span style="color: #FF0000">No sparks allowed!</span> Amazing how smooth the cut was.PJ

 

[Banjo]

Paul, You can check out Omax's website for all the details, but it uses 60,000 PSI and an injection of garnet in the water stream.(Kind of like a wet sand blaster). We clamp the work down to the grid, then flood the table so all the cutting happens under water. It's really very quiet. The cutting nozzle shoots down on the workpiece from about 1/8 inch away and is on a computer controlled arm which gives it an accuracy of .003". all cuts are made following CAD drawings in the computer. I cut two tiny little parts out of .02" steel today. little clips about the size of mini fuses. It took less than 30 seconds to cut both of them. On the flip side I made a few pieces from 1/2" mild steel too. They took much longer (Bout a half hour for a pair of spacers about 6x11)
It'll cut anything from tungsten to glass. I gotta make some rubber washers tomorrow.
It's impressive.
(see the Triumph forum for my project idea...hehehehe)

 

[DrEntropy]

This is where we excell... Fab up bits from any metal, cut from stock and finished with CAD/CAM gear.

Why th' heck are we buyin' ill-fitting bits from Tiawan for LBC's?!?!

 

[anthony7777]

doc, some er dare stuff can even BLOW UP, aka the chincy sheetlighting oil pump i once got from dem!

 

[DrEntropy]

I.E.D.!!!

Pipp-poor Q.C. on th' relief valve!

They've NO CLUE what they're makin'... may as well give a buncha monkeys typewriters.

 

[DNK]

What's a typewriter?

 

[PAUL161]

<span style="font-size: 10pt">Don, They went with these and this modern one is even electric powered! Wow!</span>

<span style="font-size: 10pt">I wonder if Doc still uses them? </span>

 

[anthony7777]

ben, 60,000 p.s.i. did i read that right?, they must have aahloddah mice runnin round in that cage, this peaked my interest, im gunna find out what kind of pump they use, by the by, your havin waaay too much fun!.

 

[DNK]

You can't call that work if your having that much fun

 

[Banjo]

Oh.. It's still work... Just more enjoyable work than I've had in a while.
Yup. 60,000 psi. check out the OMAX site. it tells about the pumps. Today's parts went from the 3/4" neoprene rubber, to large pieces of lexan, to a block of some rally hard 1/4" alloy. with lots of mild steel, and aluminum in between.
cool stuff.