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Water jet cut rate.
This is due to the waterjet cutting stream spreading out as it gets farther from the nozzle.
Unfortunately as the pressure increases so does the cost and maintenance so this is not as simple as it seems.
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These costs should be relatively universal regardless of the manufacturer of your waterjet.
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.
Then you would pick an abrasive jet and expect to have a very imprecise cut almost like oxy acetylene burning.
There are several items to keep in mind when looking at the cost per hour to run a waterjet.
The top face is cut accurately and the accuracy gets worse as you get toward the bottom face.
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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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.
The shape of the waterjet stream means that inside corners cut on the waterjet cannot be perfectly sharp.
The less common microjet waterjet cutting heads have a smaller nozzle and stream width of 0 02 inches 0 5 mm.
Simply put the higher the pressure the faster the cut.
Hourly cost to run an waterjet the long answer.
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