[meteorite-list] Water fun

[Rob Wesel]

I have one of these a few minutes from my house, never tried a thick 
chondrite but it goes through iron slices like butter and intricate shapes 
are not a problem, you could carve a gibeon into a spring if you wanted. Had 
a customer who wanted to trim his Hum-V with Gibeon so he sent the specs and 
the waterjet took care of business. I didn't calculate losses as money 
wasn't an object but you can get the jet very narrow. As I recall, It had 
gone through 2 inch iron plate with equal intricacy and they still delicate 
enough to cut glass. I've seen the same model used on American Chopper and 
that's what sparked my search for one. As for time costs you could carve 
your name in an iron slice for about $75.

http://www.waterjets.org/waterjet_pictures_4.html

Rob Wesel
http://www.nakhladogmeteorites.com
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Meteoriteshow" <meteoriteshow at free.fr>
To: <marcin at polandmet.com>; "Martin Altmann" <altmann at meteorite-martin.de>; 
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 10:03 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Water fun


> Dear Marcin and all,
>
> I have tried this cutting method with a chondrite about three years ago 
> and gave up immediately.
> Water jet cutting is very nice and fast, providing a got cutting surface 
> when the material to be cut is homogeneous. So maybe it
> could be tried with an Iron meteorite, but with chondrites it is not 
> adapted to my opinion, chondrules being often much harder than
> the matrix, not mentioning the metal flakes.
> As you said about the test that you made, you lost about 2mm by cutting, 
> and will lose another 2mm polishing (both surfaces I
> guess), which makes a big 6mm loss and a long time spent polishing...
> Just my 2 cents!
>
> Frederic Beroud
> http://www.meteoriteshow.com
> IMCA member # 2491 (http://www.imca.cc/)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <marcin at polandmet.com>
> To: "Martin Altmann" <altmann at meteorite-martin.de>; 
> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 5:44 PM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Water fun
>
>
>> How high was the cut loss?
>> Did you also try to cut irons?
>>
>> Hi
>> They can cut with minimal water stream diameter 0.8mm. Here cut loses was
>> around 2mm + another 2mm if I want polish surface, so this is not the 
>> most
>> economical method. But they cut my SAU very fast. If they made speed for
>> lets say 1mm per 1 minute, then surface will be much, much better.
>>
>> They say that in user manual is written that they can cut iron up to 
>> 20cm,
>> but I think its just marketing only.
>> Diamond blades are still best for stone meteorites.
>>
>> -----[ MARCIN CIMALA ]-----[ I.M.C.A.#3667 ]-----
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