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    Default Wood cutting with water jet - how much pressure needed?

    Hi,
    I would like to cut wood with a thickness of about 5 cm. Does anyone know how much pressure I need approximately? How can I find out which diameter I need for the jet ?
    Thank you for helping!
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    Default Re: Wood cutting with water jet - how much pressure needed?

    What sort of cut quality? With or without abrasive? What kind of wood?

    Not enough information to give a useful answer.


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    Default Re: Wood cutting with water jet - how much pressure needed?

    I don't think theres any hard and fast rule but certainly more pressure will let you cut faster at a given cut quality. A .014 orifice/.040 mixing tube is a fairly common combo.



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    Default Re: Wood cutting with water jet - how much pressure needed?

    Hi,
    thanks for the answers! The wood is soft (I have a lot of palm trees and therefore every year a lot of fronds which I would like to cut in smaller pieces). I don't want to use abrasive. The cut quality doesn't have to be good.

    Thank you!



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    Default Re: Wood cutting with water jet - how much pressure needed?

    If you have a lot, I would do some testing. Generally speaking, a larger orifice should let you cut a little faster, as should more pressure.

    If you're trying to use less pressure, I would start with whatever the default orifice size is normally, and work up from 20k based on how the cut test looks.



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