County Fabrications can offer you a truly versatile profiling option to meet the demanding standards of today's industry.
Abrasive water jet cutting works by passing high pressure water at 3800 bar through a pneumatic valve, then through an industrial jewel, a sapphire, to reduce the jet to 0.4mm wide. A fine abrasive garnet sand is then added and forced through hardened carbide nozzle which determines the diameter of the cutting jet. The cutting jet can be varied from 0.5mm to 1.2mm dependent on cutting application. The final velocity of the abrasive liquid when it meets the surface to be cut is in the region of 1000 metres per second, which is 2-3 times the speed of sound. It is this tremendous speeding abrasive water that creates the cutting tool.
Due to the highly verstail nature of abrasive water jet cutting the range of materials it is suitable for is wide and varied.
Materials suited to abrasive water jet cutting include..........
- aluminium
- stainless steel
- brass
- bronze
- copper
- clad steel
- glass
- marble
- granite
- plastics
- perspex
- rubber
- armour plate
- titanium
to name but a few.
The benefits of water jet cutting are.......
- cuts soft materials up to 100mm thick
- cuts hard materials up to 50mm thick
- accurate to +/- 0.25mm
- no material hardening or distortion from the cutting process
- no secondary cleaning operation required
- eliminates drilling and slotting
- no limits to complex or creative designs and shapes
- easy repeat of jobs and rapic prototyping
- large 4 metre by 2 metre cutting area
Alternatively you may wish to read about our new laser cutting facility
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