Abrasive water jet cutting

Flow NanoJet

Our abrasive waterjet cutter is a 40kW, 6000 bar, fully enclosed machine with a cutting area of 100cm x 60 cm. In principle, anything up to about 10 cm thick can be cut, but there some limitations on what we may cut for safety reasons, and others that do not yield good results.
 

Capabilities

• Cuts material up to 10 cm thick
• ~10 μm positioning accuracy
• 1.2 m x 0.65 m cutting area
• Nozzle rises up to 15 cm vertically
• 0.02 mm / 0.3 m linear straightness accuracy

 

Acceptable materials	Unacceptable materials	Difficult materials
Aluminium Steel Copper Tungsten Rock Glass PTFE	Anything that can't go down the drain Lead Cadmium	Brittle Layered (like fibreglass) Water sensitive Too soft

Design requirements

Your base material must have enough room around the part that you want to cut out so that it can be securely clamped down. You should have 5 cm of clearance along 2 edges for this.

We have two nozzles available, and their cutting "beams" have a diameters of about 1 mm and 0.4mm. Internal corners sharper than that are not possible, and very fine features can be tricky.

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