Help with Abrasive Jet and Waterjet Cutting Machines specifications:
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| Complete Machine / System | Complete system with all of the components required for the blasting or jet machining applications such as pressure generation/intensification, cabinets, nozzles or wheels, and dust collectors. | ||
| Component / Accessory | A blast or jet machine part or component that can be used to build a system or replace a worn or broken component. | ||
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| Abrasive Water Jet Cutter | Abrasive jet cutting machines use abrasive grains entrained in a stream of water to cut through metal, composite, or other materials in sheet or web forms. | ||
| Air Abrasive Jet Cutter | Abrasive jet cutting machines use abrasive grains entrained in a stream of air to cut through metal, composite, or other materials in sheet or web forms. | ||
| Precision Blast / Micro-jet | Abrasive blaster or abrasive jet machining unit having an extremely fine and precise stream. | ||
| Other | Other unlisted, specialized, or proprietary machine type. | ||
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System Options / Component Types
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| Cabinet / Enclosure | Blast cabinets are glove box-like vessels that hold the workpiece and the blasting process. Blast cabinets usually consist of a chamber with glove ports, viewing window, and internal lighting. The workpieces rest on an open grid that allows used abrasive to drop through for recycling. | ||
| Cutting Booth / Room | Blast rooms or enclosed blasting booths contain the blasting process when blasting larger workpieces. Blast cabinets usually consist of a room with internal lighting that holds both the workpiece and the operator. The operator may hold the blasting nozzle on the end of a lance. The workpieces rest on open grid flooring that allows used abrasive to drop through for recycling. | ||
| Cutting Head / Gun | Cutting heads direct a stream of water or abrasives and a carrier (water or air) at the appropriate part of the workpiece. | ||
| Abrasive Injector | Abrasive injectors are used to move abrasives from a storage vessel to a nozzle, gun, head, or wheel. The injection or metering system controls the amount of abrasive pushed into the air or water stream. In large systems, the delivery system and injection system may be separate components. | ||
| Hopper / Tank | Hoppers or tanks are used for storing dry abrasive grains, blasting media, or abrasive-water slurry mixtures. | ||
| Pressure Generator | Pressure generators increase the pressure of the carrier fluid (water or air). Plunger-type intensifier pumps are commonly used to generate high-pressure water for water jet cutting, wet, or water abrasive blasting, and non-abrasive pressure washing or rinsing. Crankshaft-driven plunger pumps are also used for pressure generation. These plunger pumps may be more efficient than intensifiers in terms of electrical energy costs, but at high pressures (>20,000 psi) the seals must be replaced periodically. Crankshaft-driven plunger pumps also provide a virtually ripple-free pressure source when compared to intensifiers. An accumulator may be required to smooth out pressure fluctuations if an intensifier pump is used. In air-based blast or jet systems, air compressors are typically used to generate pressure. | ||
| Dust Collection / Filtration System | Dust collection or filtration systems remove fine particle sizes of abrasives, media, and blasting waste (removed scale or stock in the form of dust or fine swarf) that would otherwise become suspended in the air. | ||
| Abrasive Separator / Reclaimer | Media separators and reclaimers are used in blast machines to remove undersized abrasives or media and blasting coarse waste (removed scale or stock in the form of swarf). | ||
| Other | Other unlisted, specialized, or proprietary component. | ||
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| Multiple Heads / Nozzles? | Machines employing or capable of using multiple nozzles or blast wheels. | ||
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Specifications
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| Jet Pressure: | The pressure of the water or air used to create a jet or blast stream for cutting or propelling abrasive particles. | ||
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| Abrasive Grain / Media Flow: | Rate of flow or feed of the abrasive grain in the system. | ||
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| Traverse Speed: | The traverse or in-feed speed of the workpiece as presented to the stream or jet. | ||
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| Power | Mechanical motor power required for driving the pumps or compressors on the machine. | ||
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Specifications - Work Capacity
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| X-axis Travel / Width Capacity: | The maximum travel along the X-axis length of the table or the maximum internal part width that can be machined on the table. Also, the internal size or capacity of the cabinet, room or enclosure. | ||
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| Y-axis Travel / Length Capacity: | The maximum travel along the Y-axis length of the table or the maximum internal part length that can be machined on the table. Also the internal size or capacity of the cabinet, room or enclosure. | ||
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| Table Weight Capacity | Maximum unit weight capacity of the table. | ||
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Machine Mounting
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| Bench / Pedestal | The machine is small enough or has features for mounting on a bench or pedestal. | ||
| Crawler / Track | Abrasive blasting, waterjet, or abrasive jet head designed for mounting on crawlers or tracks. Crawlers are small vehicles that grab onto a surface with magnetic or vacuum feet mounted on a set of tracks. Track mounted units use a track to guide the jet cutter head across the surface. The track is mounted to the tank or vessel to be cut or blasted with vacuum or magnetic clamps. Crawler or track based blasters or cutters are used on large surfaces such as the side of a steel tank, ship's hull, vehicle or building wall, the blast stream or abrasive jet is presented to and scanned or guided across the surface for cutting or cleaning. Crawler or track mounted can uniformly clean or roughen a surface by scanning a surface in a controlled and repeatable fashion. Track, robotic arm, or crawler mounted jet cutters are also useful in hazardous situations such as in disarming a bomb or mine. | ||
| Cart / Hand Truck | The machine can be mounted on or built into a cart or hand truck. | ||
| Floor / Skid | The machine can be mounted on the floor or a skid in a freestanding position. | ||
| Portable Machine | The machine is capable of being carried or transported to the worksite, plant or field area requiring blasting or jet cutting. The machine is not designed for fixed location. | ||
| Robotic / Articulated Arm | Robotic arms can uniformly clean or roughen a surface by scanning a surface in a controlled and repeatable fashion. Jet cutter mounted on crawlers or robotic arms are also useful in hazardous situations such as in disarming a bomb or mine. | ||
| Trailer / Vehicle | The machine can be mounted on or built into a trailer or vehicle. The trailer or vehicle is driven or towed to the worksite requiring blasting or jet cutting such as the side of a steel tank, ship's hull or building wall. | ||
| Other | Other unlisted, specialized, or proprietary machine mounting type. | ||
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Part Presentation / Handling
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| None (Large Surface) | On large, fixed surfaces such as the side of a steel tank, ship's hull, vehicle, or building wall, the blast stream or abrasive jet is presented to and scanned or guided across the surface for cutting or cleaning. | ||
| Offhand / Handheld | The part is handheld for presentation to the abrasive blast stream. Parts cannot be presented to the stream in a water jet abrasive machine. | ||
| Table - Gantry / XY | The part is mounted onto a gantry or XY table. The cutting jet traverses the sheet or part to cut out the pre-designed pattern. | ||
| Table - Rotary | The workpiece is clamped to or held in a vise mounted on a rotary table. | ||
| Other | Other unlisted, specialized, or proprietary workpiece loading types. | ||
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Features
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| Cutting / Sectioning | Machines capable of sectioning or cutting a pattern out of sheet or plate materials. | ||
| Deburring / Deflashing | Machines capable of deburring sharp edges or discontinuities or removing flash from a part. | ||
| Demolition / Hydrodemolition | Demolition is the destruction of structures or walls constructed of building materials. Hydrodemolition usually refers to the destruction of concrete structures or walls. | ||
| Descaling / Stripping | Descaling is the removal of heat-treat scale, surface discoloration, oxides, rust, weld scale, or corrosion that ruins appearance and interferes with welding, painting, plating, coating, drawing, and other processes. Stripping is the removal of an existing protective coating or paint layer to facilitate welding, recoating or adhesive joining. | ||
| Web Slitting | Equipment designed for slitting webs or cutting sheet materials. These machines typically have a coil feeder, winder, or rewinder. | ||
| Other | Other unlisted, specialized, or proprietary processes or operations. | ||
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| Materials Processed / Abraded: | |||
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| Metal | Any of a broad category of elements that usually have a shiny surface and grayish color, are good conductors of electricity and heat, can be melted or fused, hammered into thin sheets, or drawn into wire. Common metals include, steel, copper, gold, silver, tin, iron, lead, aluminum, and magnesium. | ||
| Wood | Wood or lumber is a natural, organic based composite material consisting of cellulose fibers imbedded in a lignin matrix. Wood products such as particleboard or plywood consist of wood particles or veneers bonded with phenolic or other organic adhesive resins. | ||
| Plastic | Any of numerous organic, synthetic, or processed materials that are mostly thermoplastic or thermosetting polymers of high molecular weight and that can be made into objects, films, or filaments. | ||
| Ceramic / Carbide | Ceramics and refractories have high melting points and hardness. Ceramics are suitable for applications requiring wear resistance, high temperature strength, electrical, or thermal insulation or other specialized characteristics. | ||
| Concrete / Masonry | Masonry can be a mixture of stone, brick, or concrete blocks laid or bonded with mortar, fasteners or other adhesives. Concrete and mortars are mixtures of a binder and aggregate (natural stone or process minerals). Mortar usually contains finer aggregates than a concrete mixture. Stone or rock is any concentrated earthy or mineral matter. Granite is a hard natural igneous rock consisting chiefly of quartz, orthoclase or microcline, and mica. Marble is a metamorphic rock formed by the alteration of limestone. Building materials consist of concrete, stone and masonry as well as glass, metal and wood. | ||
| Glass | Glass is a large class of materials with variable mechanical and optical properties that is formed by cooling from a molten state without crystallization. Glass is a hard, brittle material consisting of a mixture of silicates that is usually transparent or translucent. It is considered to be a cooled liquid rather than a true solid. | ||
| Other | Other unlisted or specialized materials. | ||
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| Automation: | |||
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| Automatic / CNC | Machine or system using a CNC controller to operate automatically with little or no operator intervention. The machine changes or adjusts abrasive media and other parameters such as speed, applied load, or coolant/lubricant flow rate in a pre-programmed manner. | ||
| Windows / PC Control | System controlled or programmed through a Windows or PC interface. The machine changes or adjusts abrasive media and other parameters such as speed, applied load, or coolant/lubricant flow rate in a pre-programmed manner. | ||
| Other | Other unlisted, specialized, or proprietary form of automation. | ||
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