[meteorite-list] Water Jet Cutting

2011-03-10 Thread Guenther
I am wondering if anyone has had success getting a meteorite sliced by a commercial water jet cutting machine? A friend of mine has a high grade machine that cost him about a million dollars. If any water jet could do it, I would imagine his could. Thanks, Abe Guenther

Re: [meteorite-list] Water Jet Cutting

2011-03-10 Thread Rob Wesel
-- We are the music makers... and we are the dreamers of the dreams. Willy Wonka, 1971 -- From: Guenther abe.guent...@mnsi.net Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 5:45 PM To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: [meteorite-list] Water Jet Cutting

Re: [meteorite-list] Water Jet Cutting

2011-03-10 Thread Marcin Cimala
I am wondering if anyone has had success getting a meteorite sliced by a commercial water jet cutting machine? A friend of mine has a high grade machine that cost him about a million dollars. If any water jet could do it, I would imagine his could. Hi again I have in nearest city water jet

Re: [meteorite-list] Water Jet Cutting

2011-03-10 Thread almitt2
Greetings, About ten years back I experimented with water jets for cutting material. Besides the water they used garnet as the abrasive in the water. There are different stream sizes they can use. Sizes don't come to me as I am writing this from memory. I cut some Odessa, Texas irons. Those