I had waterjet for 6 years (yes, also retrofitted to LinuxCNC) and I _always_ had the water tank as full as possible - much less splashes around. Nothing like you had in the video. If possible, you might want to try to submerge the workpiece under surface of water - the cutting process is much more quiet and even less splashes around, especially during piercing. Yes, the force required to keep the workpiece fixed, is relatively low - the cutting forces that are transfered to workpiece are very very small (one of the main benefits of this technology), so basically you just need to deal with the forces of splashes and motion of water in tank (as it swirls around the jet entry point).
Viesturs 2016-01-01 6:28 GMT+02:00 Jason Burton <[email protected]>: > I missed that bit, good catch Jon. > On Dec 30, 2015 10:26 PM, "Jon Elson" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 12/30/2015 02:08 PM, Jason Burton wrote: >> > That's what the bricks do in the clip. It takes surprisingly little >> > clamping to make good parts on waterjet. >> > >> Yes, but I could see the workpiece in the video jumping when >> the pierce went through. >> So, the bricks were not in the right place, I guess. >> >> Jon >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> Emc-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
