Waterjet Group

DJet22 · DJet22

Curious to know what a good average for water jet operation and programming is to be expected hourly? I operate and program for two Omax waterjets with one year experience. What is a peak for waterjet work as far as hourly goes? those who have been in the business a while

444

I am not using my cutter at the moment and noticed the plastic water lines to the heads are going a rusty colour .what should I do.

Bavy · Bavy

Hi we are moving factory shortly and i have been told i need some transportation brackets for my machine does anyone have any pictures of these or know where i canhold of some.

Grahamjet · Grahamjet

Currently cutting with flow mach 3 87000 psi started to cut 20mm ss and 60% usually get a good cut but started to get really bad cut. changed orifice and mixing tube using 80 mesh garnet. also using dwj but problem also with dwj turned off. Flow disk is disk that is installed was placed in by flow engineer...

Kevin D · Kevin D

I'm trying to find ways to improve our part clamping process. Looking for ways to make the table setup a little faster. We currently use a treaded rod hooked to the bottom of the grate with a plate at the top that holds the part in place. What do others do? Is there anybody that makes a clamping system de...

Kevin · Kevin

How do you rebuild the seals for the high pressure block. We just go a used water jet and both blocks leak. I am a newby at this and could use some help. Thanks Kevin

oferiniowa · oferiniowa

We've got a Mach 2 that was just installed in May. We primarily cut mild steel with an occasional stainless or UHMW. When the machine was new an up until about 80 to 100 hours ago the software cutting speed woudl easily cut our parts at 80% feed rate. Now we have to manually slow the feed rate down an addi...

FIRE TRUCK · FIRE TRUCK

Recently our Water Jet clypso arms cracked on both ends straight through. We spot we welded it back and cut some new arms. we used 1 inch ALU 6061 Materials. for the new arms. Thanks God we did because once again the motors took off when sending it back. and snaped the arms of around the new welds. I know th...

Grahamjet · Grahamjet

Currently have a flow dwj does anyone know where i can get a video for the strightness ajustment. Don't think i'm doing this the correct way as the holes are not to sizewhen using dwj.

calypso marty · calypso marty

hi guys, first time. hope you can help! KMT pump/30 hp/intensifier type. starting pump it strokes a few times but as soon as you start cutting it stops stroking and i get red lights on LEDs on both proximity switches. i have changed both of the "ice cube" relays and still have the problem. if...

Ivan992Croatia · Ivan992Croatia

Hello all, I am working on a water jet for longer then a year now it˙s teen king (yeah it˙s chinese). Teen king wj is pretty god for work on it but the only problem is oil overheating it is heat to 92°C (pretty dangerous) when it˙s turned off by temperature alarm. It can only work for a 2-2.5 hour with no turni...

rd400f · rd400f

Hi We have a Kinetic Water-jet that runs two KMT AUTOLINE II cutting heads. Being new to water cutting and not having many people to bounce ideas off here in New Zealand. I want to ask if anyone has ever had a problem like the one we ran into this week. Basically we were cutting 25mm mild steel using a 0.025m...

adam · adam

i've got a boao water jet which i use to cut glass, the problem im having is when it is about to do its first cut its blowing to much pressure out and breaking (venting) the glass. i've changed every part on the head and even the intensifier. can some please help, it is doing my head in

calypso marty · calypso marty

i have a KMT 30hp intensifier pump that wont stroke. changed the relays but no luck. what do ya think? marty

DAF · DAF

I have a project that I want to do. It consists of scribing on Granite and Marble. Has anyone done that? If so what can you tell me about it?

Mihoko06 · Mihoko06

Anyone help with troublesome flow machine??

Grahamjet · Grahamjet

Anybody have are know where i can find DXF Files for football badges. English Prem etc

bmf · bmf

Has anyone had any luck keeping the plastic shields around the waterjet clean? I have tried rain-x and just hoseing them off but they never stay clean for more than a day. Only reason i as is customers like to come see the waterjet at work. The dirty shiedls just make the machine look bad. Thanks for a...

Tbeck229 · Tbeck229

I have a flow jet 60k and I am getting the alarm "x axis amplifier fault". I did the basics by checking all the wires, breakers and resetting the drive. I looked through the manual but nothing of importance came through and i will be contacting flow on Monday morning when they open. Any and all...

58GMCFAB · 58GMCFAB

We use a water softener to condition our water, the only problem is that it forms rust on our part almost as fast as we can pull them out of the machine. We've had the softener and water checked and both are at the required levels. We've had our Mach 2 for about a year and had this problem from day 1. Most of the...

stevemc7 · stevemc7

Hello everyone, We have a Calypso unit with a 60,000 psi pump, we cut alot of A36 mild steel but we seem to be cutting very slow with quality set at 2 and 1.25 lb/min we are cutting 1/2" at 5 ipm and 3/8" 9ipm. what is everyone else cutting at? any ideas on speeding it up ? it's killing our productio...

RFox · RFox

Our company is looking to upgrade / modernize our Hammerhead. I am wondering if anyone can recommend a company that has experience with Hammerheads.

Scott · Scott

We run a Calypso Hammerhead machine. When cutting either granite or quartz we sometimes get a blowout at the pierce point. How do we get it to either pirce gently so as not to get a blowout on tne material or to get the machine set up to pierce outside the pierce point and move in to the actual cut?

jimmy · jimmy

i was cutting something.. and then the machine stops and shows me the warning Z axis amplifier fault what can i do?

ndcleveland · ndcleveland

I am an instructor at a technical college. One of my students shut our control of while it was booting up and corrupted the system files. After contacting flow I was able to re-image the hard drive and get the control to function again. The issue now is that the drive image they sent is for a waterjet pro 13...

Grahamjet · Grahamjet

Just purchased our 2nd Flow jet Mach 3 87k. What a machine. But 4 weeks in i'm getting leakage around the high pressure cylinder. I know you may get some leakage but we seem to be getting more than a bit. Might i say it's cold water and when i started the pump from cold a few mins in the pressure dropped to arou...

jkopylec · jkopylec

hey just trying to see if anyone has had this problem before, i have a flow IFB with a 50Is pump and recently i have not been able to keep high pressure seats in my bleeddown valve everytime i rebuild the valve 15 to 20 minutes later the valve starts leaking through the bleeddown hose and then it overheats i...

fx4matt · fx4matt

sometimes when cutting a program our flow mach 2 will decide its finished and shut the water sand and pump off and act like the program has finished so i have to fire it back up and cut from where it left off, any ideas? matt

-tools- · -tools-

We purchased a brand new Flow Mach III / 85000 psi machine with a dynamic head. This machine goes through a full set of high pressure lines every 400-500 hours? Does any one else have this issue? Is this typical with these machines? We figured buying a new machine you might get a year out of it without some...

HiLL1731 · HiLL1731

I am looking to get a refrigerated air dryer for my mitsubishi Dx-510 WaterJet. Not sure what brands are good or bad. Any suggestions?

Topic		Started By	Replies	Views	Last Post
	Whats a good average for $$ (Preview) Curious to know what a good average for water jet operation and programming is to be expected hourly? I operate and program for two Omax waterjets with one year experience. What is a peak for waterjet work as far as hourly goes? those who have been in the business a while	DJet22	1	2532	Mar 11, 2013 by NationalEngravers
	Shutting down a water jet machine for o long time what should you do. (Preview) I am not using my cutter at the moment and noticed the plastic water lines to the heads are going a rusty colour .what should I do.	444	0	2151	Mar 6, 2013 by 444
	Relocation of water jet machine (Preview) Hi we are moving factory shortly and i have been told i need some transportation brackets for my machine does anyone have any pictures of these or know where i canhold of some.	Bavy	1	2352	Mar 5, 2013 by johny5
	Bad cut flow waterjet 87000 psi (Preview) Currently cutting with flow mach 3 87000 psi started to cut 20mm ss and 60% usually get a good cut but started to get really bad cut. changed orifice and mixing tube using 80 mesh garnet. also using dwj but problem also with dwj turned off. Flow disk is disk that is installed was placed in by flow engineer...	Grahamjet	3	4592	Feb 18, 2013 by lilmurdock07
	How to clamp parts? (Preview) I'm trying to find ways to improve our part clamping process. Looking for ways to make the table setup a little faster. We currently use a treaded rod hooked to the bottom of the grate with a plate at the top that holds the part in place. What do others do? Is there anybody that makes a clamping system de...	Kevin D	4	6669	Feb 11, 2013 by Kevin D
	High pressure leak (Preview) How do you rebuild the seals for the high pressure block. We just go a used water jet and both blocks leak. I am a newby at this and could use some help. Thanks Kevin	Kevin	2	2362	Feb 4, 2013 by Kevin
	Cutting speed constantly slowing - Solutions? (Preview) We've got a Mach 2 that was just installed in May. We primarily cut mild steel with an occasional stainless or UHMW. When the machine was new an up until about 80 to 100 hours ago the software cutting speed woudl easily cut our parts at 80% feed rate. Now we have to manually slow the feed rate down an addi...	oferiniowa	6	2722	Jan 3, 2013 by FIRE TRUCK
	WATER JET ARMS breaking in half (Preview) Recently our Water Jet clypso arms cracked on both ends straight through. We spot we welded it back and cut some new arms. we used 1 inch ALU 6061 Materials. for the new arms. Thanks God we did because once again the motors took off when sending it back. and snaped the arms of around the new welds. I know th...	FIRE TRUCK	0	2104	Jan 3, 2013 by FIRE TRUCK
	flow dynamic (Preview) Currently have a flow dwj does anyone know where i can get a video for the strightness ajustment. Don't think i'm doing this the correct way as the holes are not to sizewhen using dwj.	Grahamjet	4	2621	Dec 26, 2012 by Flow guy
	pump wont stroke (Preview) hi guys, first time. hope you can help! KMT pump/30 hp/intensifier type. starting pump it strokes a few times but as soon as you start cutting it stops stroking and i get red lights on LEDs on both proximity switches. i have changed both of the "ice cube" relays and still have the problem. if...	calypso marty	1	2385	Dec 19, 2012 by blucepeak
	Teen King L3020 overheating (Preview) Hello all, I am working on a water jet for longer then a year now it˙s teen king (yeah it˙s chinese). Teen king wj is pretty god for work on it but the only problem is oil overheating it is heat to 92°C (pretty dangerous) when it˙s turned off by temperature alarm. It can only work for a 2-2.5 hour with no turni...	Ivan992Croatia	7	5062	Dec 19, 2012 by blucepeak
	Waterjet cutting in New Zealand (Preview) Hi We have a Kinetic Water-jet that runs two KMT AUTOLINE II cutting heads. Being new to water cutting and not having many people to bounce ideas off here in New Zealand. I want to ask if anyone has ever had a problem like the one we ran into this week. Basically we were cutting 25mm mild steel using a 0.025m...	rd400f	7	5448	Dec 19, 2012 by blucepeak
	boao water jet (Preview) i've got a boao water jet which i use to cut glass, the problem im having is when it is about to do its first cut its blowing to much pressure out and breaking (venting) the glass. i've changed every part on the head and even the intensifier. can some please help, it is doing my head in	adam	3	13431	Dec 19, 2012 by blucepeak
	pump wont stroke (Preview) i have a KMT 30hp intensifier pump that wont stroke. changed the relays but no luck. what do ya think? marty	calypso marty	0	2069	Dec 3, 2012 by calypso marty
	Scribing On Stone ( Granite or Marble ) With Flow WJ (Preview) I have a project that I want to do. It consists of scribing on Granite and Marble. Has anyone done that? If so what can you tell me about it?	DAF	0	2137	Nov 16, 2012 by DAF
	Flow machines (Preview) Anyone help with troublesome flow machine??	Mihoko06	2	2649	Nov 14, 2012 by perfpro
	Football Badges (Preview) Anybody have are know where i can find DXF Files for football badges. English Prem etc	Grahamjet	0	1985	Nov 13, 2012 by Grahamjet
	Clear plastic safety sheilds (Preview) Has anyone had any luck keeping the plastic shields around the waterjet clean? I have tried rain-x and just hoseing them off but they never stay clean for more than a day. Only reason i as is customers like to come see the waterjet at work. The dirty shiedls just make the machine look bad. Thanks for a...	bmf	1	2167	Nov 13, 2012 by oferiniowa
	X axis problems please help. (Preview) I have a flow jet 60k and I am getting the alarm "x axis amplifier fault". I did the basics by checking all the wires, breakers and resetting the drive. I looked through the manual but nothing of importance came through and i will be contacting flow on Monday morning when they open. Any and all...	Tbeck229	1	4170	Nov 5, 2012 by Tbeck229
	Rusty parts (Preview) We use a water softener to condition our water, the only problem is that it forms rust on our part almost as fast as we can pull them out of the machine. We've had the softener and water checked and both are at the required levels. We've had our Mach 2 for about a year and had this problem from day 1. Most of the...	58GMCFAB	1	2686	Oct 18, 2012 by oferiniowa
	Slow steel cutting speeds (Preview) Hello everyone, We have a Calypso unit with a 60,000 psi pump, we cut alot of A36 mild steel but we seem to be cutting very slow with quality set at 2 and 1.25 lb/min we are cutting 1/2" at 5 ipm and 3/8" 9ipm. what is everyone else cutting at? any ideas on speeding it up ? it's killing our productio...	stevemc7	2	3228	Oct 17, 2012 by Kgtheway2b
	Calypso Hammerhead Upgrade (Preview) Our company is looking to upgrade / modernize our Hammerhead. I am wondering if anyone can recommend a company that has experience with Hammerheads.	RFox	1	2349	Oct 17, 2012 by Kgtheway2b
	Pierce Points (Preview) We run a Calypso Hammerhead machine. When cutting either granite or quartz we sometimes get a blowout at the pierce point. How do we get it to either pirce gently so as not to get a blowout on tne material or to get the machine set up to pierce outside the pierce point and move in to the actual cut?	Scott	2	3523	Oct 17, 2012 by Kgtheway2b
	z axis amplifier shut down.. where it is? how can i fix this problem (Preview) i was cutting something.. and then the machine stops and shows me the warning Z axis amplifier fault what can i do?	jimmy	0	3148	Oct 10, 2012 by jimmy
	Problem with a waterjet pro 1313 need help (Preview) I am an instructor at a technical college. One of my students shut our control of while it was booting up and corrupted the system files. After contacting flow I was able to re-image the hard drive and get the control to function again. The issue now is that the drive image they sent is for a waterjet pro 13...	ndcleveland	0	2386	Oct 8, 2012 by ndcleveland
	Pump leaking (Preview) Just purchased our 2nd Flow jet Mach 3 87k. What a machine. But 4 weeks in i'm getting leakage around the high pressure cylinder. I know you may get some leakage but we seem to be getting more than a bit. Might i say it's cold water and when i started the pump from cold a few mins in the pressure dropped to arou...	Grahamjet	0	2237	Sep 22, 2012 by Grahamjet
	bleeddown valve bypassing (Preview) hey just trying to see if anyone has had this problem before, i have a flow IFB with a 50Is pump and recently i have not been able to keep high pressure seats in my bleeddown valve everytime i rebuild the valve 15 to 20 minutes later the valve starts leaking through the bleeddown hose and then it overheats i...	jkopylec	0	2180	Sep 12, 2012 by jkopylec
	The GHOST!!! (Preview) sometimes when cutting a program our flow mach 2 will decide its finished and shut the water sand and pump off and act like the program has finished so i have to fire it back up and cut from where it left off, any ideas? matt	fx4matt	1	2285	Aug 27, 2012 by drewel
	FLOW MACH III Lines Breaking continuous (Preview) We purchased a brand new Flow Mach III / 85000 psi machine with a dynamic head. This machine goes through a full set of high pressure lines every 400-500 hours? Does any one else have this issue? Is this typical with these machines? We figured buying a new machine you might get a year out of it without some...	-tools-	1	2757	Aug 23, 2012 by waterjetgroup
	Refrigerated Air Dryer (Preview) I am looking to get a refrigerated air dryer for my mitsubishi Dx-510 WaterJet. Not sure what brands are good or bad. Any suggestions?	HiLL1731	0	2105	Aug 20, 2012 by HiLL1731
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