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Re: pic: Team 359 Flow WaterJet Installation

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Originally Posted by Cory View Post
Everything I have read about high def plasma says .015-.020

That Flow is rated for .005, if I remember correctly (.001 with the dynamic head).
http://www.schulermfg.com/cnc-plasma...-services.html

http://www.fsmdirect.com/articles/cu...d-capabilities

One of my contacts at Hypertherm had a high-end table he was testing that was achieving between +/-0.005in and +/-0.010in tolerance.

The tolerance is heavily dependent on the drive table and proper operation and setup of course, with both plasma and water-jet cutting. For work, I routinely get better results from an outside machine shop with an ancient 3-axis water jet than a military prototyping shop with a 5-axis water jet.

Now I'm not saying one is better than the other, they both have good and bad sides, I'm just saying that not all plasma cutting systems are created equally.
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