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Well I am jealous.Owning a waterjet is my dream.It will open up so many more doors having a waterjet.Good luck to you........
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New Waterjet ordered!!! We ordered a new Omax 60120-P3050V today!!!
I am thrilled as our Plasma table is fast but struggles on certain things, having both will be pretty sweet.
Mike
Well I am jealous.Owning a waterjet is my dream.It will open up so many more doors having a waterjet.Good luck to you........
You will be very happy with your Omax. Customer service is great, the training is great, and the machine is quite easy and fun to run.
Watching your waterjet run will be like watching a slug crossing a road. Theyre not way as fast as a plasma but they have their placeOriginally Posted by madkins
If you didn't buy a chiller with it, you will be rebuilding it every 100-150 hours. Not like the promised 300 hours that sales gives you. With a chiller I have gone close to 1000 hours with my Omax. Yeh, service its great, but if your calling them, something is broke. You will learn their service personnel very quickly.
I suggest you get on http://waterjets.org/ as quickly as possible. They can help you through alot of difficult cutting times.
Mark
Can you share the details of the chiller you installed on your machine?
What size?
Did you purchase it from Omax?
What are the inlet and outlet water temps or what temp are you feeding the pump?
Thanks for the heads up.
Mike
The water chiller was purchased from Omax for about $8,000. The manufacturer is Koolant Koolers.
I don't know what the size is but, you can call Omax. They will give you the specifics on it. They also don't care whether you buy it from them or someone else. My inlet temperature varied depending on the season. I'm in Georgia, so it can get to around 65-75 degrees inlet temperature in the summer. I always kept the outlet temperature to the pump at around 40-50 degrees. Not as cold as I like it for my beer, but close. I can not stress to you on how much you need this chiller!
I had a Omax 80160. The economy killed me so I had to go out of business. Was in business for 4 years. I still get mail from waterjets.org. I strongly recommend you sign up and get reading.
Best wishes and good luck Mike,
We don't have a chiller on our Omax, our inlet water in the summer at max will be maybe 60 degrees (Calgary, Canada). We have almost 400 hours on ours without a rebuild, last time the service guy was here he checked our pressures and said we should be good until 600hrs.
Also, when we had the machine setup the service guy set it up so when the charge pump (fills the supply tank for the pump) is running, it is constantly using fresh water to cool the pump off.
I also recommend you to use a chiller, but most important is care about the water quality. Is very important check frequently the water quality and also the PH. If you can use a reverse osmoses unit to keep your water in good quality.
good luck
Marcelo
Use reverse osmosis to keep the water clean?? thats a little overkill now isnt it. reverse osmosis takes about 99% of almost everything out of the water, is very expensive on maintenance and in the this case not the way to go. I would think the major things too look for in the water would be like you said PH, Iron, Maganese, Hardness, and slime bacteria. PH adjustment is simply done by adding a base or alkaline to reach 7.5PH or so. An greensand filter would take care of the maganese and iron, a softner of the hardness. Most likely the waterjet is connected to city water anyways and this wond be needed, and couple of staged cardridge filters to take the frogs & logs out would be enough.
For sure osmoses is the expensive system to keep your water in good quality, but at first is very important you consider what is expensive the osmoses or rebuilding the pump every 300 hours?
Of course it depends about the quality of the water supply, the best way is analyzer the water in the lab before buy the filters, softner or osmoses.
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