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AP Services’ third waterjet includes six cutting heads, a 100-hp intensifier pump and a unique high-rail gantry featuring a 6-ft. spreader bar, providing AP Services with a 12 by 16-ft. total reach.
the holes in the interior.
Another project saw fourteen 21⁄8-in.
squares cut from each side of a 6-in.- dia. by 10-ft.-long Type 304 stainless- steel pipe with a 5⁄8-in.-thick wall. It cut the squares 180 deg. apart to a ±0.010- in. positional accuracy. To accomplish this, it used special fixtures, also cut on the waterjet. In addition, it utilized two cutting heads to produce the product in half the time, to tolerance.
The waterjet systems continue to impress Ehrlich, who says he gets thou- sands of hours out of the diamond ori- fices in Jet Edge’s cutting heads, and has experienced, on average, an 800 to 1000-hr. interval between seal changes on the intensifier pumps.
He adds that the systems are easy to learn and operate, so much so that he originally trained two operators and they, in turn, have trained six more.
MF
Article supplied by Jet Edge, Inc., St. Michael, MN; 800/538-3343, www.jetedge.com.
has taken on numerous challenging projects. In one application, the com- pany cut a mammoth 12-ft-dia. circle out of 1-in.-thick stainless steel. The circle featured round holes throughout its interior. With a special fixture, the
company utilized the machine’s first cutting head to start around the perimeter and then picked up where the first head left off with a second cut- ting head to finish out the perimeter. They used both heads to cut out all

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