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As Cory has mentioned, buying a Waterjet is very expensive.
It was a long process for us, and we didnt consider not having enough power and pressure in our water lines to support the machine that we bought from Flow, the MACH 2. The operating costs are enormous, but lucky for us, we dont pay for utilities. I also find funding to pay for the garnet, orifices, mixing tubes, and blast discs.
Even the delivery and installation for us was a nightmare. Our shop doesnt have a crane and the spacing was terrible for getting it into our shop.
The total time to just deliver it in place was over 14 hours, and it was a very stressful one too.
We spent a total of $240,000 and the power upgrade alone (step up transformer and dedicated power) was over $40k of that price.

In the end though, if you can afford it, it is by far the best machine we ever bought hands down. The amount of intense labor time cut for our mentors and students is priceless.
To actually run the machine from design concept to end cut is so much easier and faster to use (2D vs 3D). Our main operators are students only, where mentors step in, in case they break a mixing tube, have to replace the orifice, or get air out of the garnet lines because they forgot to add garnet when it runs low.
We come up with way more uses for it now and our machine runs daily, mostly for big fundraising-partnership initiatives to support our program, during the off-season.

We are VERY happy with our Flow Jet and the customer service that we get is excellent.