Hourly cost to run an waterjet the long answer.
Water jet cut rate.
Unfortunately as the pressure increases so does the cost and maintenance so this is not as simple as it seems.
The less common microjet waterjet cutting heads have a smaller nozzle and stream width of 0 02 inches 0 5 mm.
Get information about cutting feeds speeds for waterjet granite cutting titanium sheet water jet and many other metals.
Parts cut using ordinary waterjet cutting will have a slight taper along the cut edge of the part typically between 0 0005 inches and 0 01 inches.
These costs should be relatively universal regardless of the manufacturer of your waterjet.
This is due to the waterjet cutting stream spreading out as it gets farther from the nozzle.
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The more water you flow the faster the cut.
For each of these i figured the cost of power wear parts water and abrasive on a cost per hour basis as shown in the chart below.
The width of the waterjet cutting stream is typically 0 04 inches or 1 mm.
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There are several items to keep in mind when looking at the cost per hour to run a waterjet.
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The top face is cut accurately and the accuracy gets worse as you get toward the bottom face.
Each of these costs represents the maximum water and abrasive flow rate for the largest orifice that can be driven by each pump at it s maximum pressure.
The shape of the waterjet stream means that inside corners cut on the waterjet cannot be perfectly sharp.
Simply put the higher the pressure the faster the cut.
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The jet was not a very rigid precise cutting tool and so early abrasive jets say in the 80s were used if you had absolutely no other possible way to cut the material.
