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    Default Anyone tried making a DIY Water jet cnc?

    Hi guys, i have looked, searched and google my way through the forums and i cant find anyone trying to build their own DIY water jet cnc machine.
    Do any of you have experiences with this?

    Is it to hard to pull of as a hobby? To expensive?
    Wonder how rigid the cnc would need to be built for water jet cutting. It seems that Hiwin rails are more or less standard when it comes to rigid cnc mills and routers, but i wonder if its possible to use cheaper rails since it is no direct milling going on.

    Feel free to comment or post links if you know of any.

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    Default Re: Anyone tried making a DIY Water jet cnc?

    found a good tread. http://www.cnczone.com/forums/genera...526-cnc-6.html
    looks like the cost and safety is the main killerr for a diy water jet?



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    Default Re: Anyone tried making a DIY Water jet cnc?

    100,000 psi, diamond nozzles, pressure pumps, slurry tanks, bags of expensive grit

    don't bother,

    But do you have work for it?

    Rent one. these are dangerous

    (I've done 5axis WaterJets)

    Been doing this too long


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    Default Re: Anyone tried making a DIY Water jet cnc?

    Sounds like im back to the drawing board on an aluminium cutting cnc mill again.. its hard to find some proper plans for a steel built cnc in the 4x8feet or a little bit smaller type


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    Default Re: Anyone tried making a DIY Water jet cnc?

    The thing is, you need to design and build the intensifier pump. It's only unsafe if you build it that way. Many people likely would build it unsafe or failure prone. Everything else can be bought off a shelf or welded together more or less. It's that pump and all that goes with it that cost all the money.



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    Default Re: Anyone tried making a DIY Water jet cnc?

    I read on this zone that chinese made is around 25k Catalog,
    but if you want to buy wardkit jet starting from 70k to 90k. https://wardjet.com/products/waterjets/wardkit

    If you want DIY maybe try chinese made.



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    Default Re: Anyone tried making a DIY Water jet cnc?

    There is a low cost waterjet on Kickstarter called Wazer or about $4,000. It can't cut 1" steel, but it is still fairly impressive.

    https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...aterjet-cutter



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    Default Re: Anyone tried making a DIY Water jet cnc?

    0.4 ipm for 3/16" mild steel.

    I appreciate they've had to make some sacrifices to keep the cost under $25k, but still - at that speed then for anything bigger or more intricate than a credit card sized rectangle I'd have time to take my stock and drawing across town to a commercial laser/jet place, let them do the CAM program and run ten then bring it all home before the wazer had finished the first part!



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    Default Re: Anyone tried making a DIY Water jet cnc?

    Yes, dharmic, you are right...



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    Default Re: Anyone tried making a DIY Water jet cnc?

    Can we use mach3 or uccnc/cncdrive for water jet?



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