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Originally Posted by Dave McLaughlin
You're right on about the consumables, garnet, power and maintenance. Omax is a major sponsor of 1983 and helped us secure a Maxiem 1515 when the final campus for Raisbeck Aviation High School was constructed.
Previous to us having a machine in house, Omax provided machine time to our team on Friday nights during build. Since we no longer require their machine time, they now support us by providing garnet and matinence assistance. Without their support, having a machine in house would be difficult to sustain, at least for our team.
As for cut quality with the Maxiem line, we could not be happier for high school robotics applications.
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Just as a point of clarity, we purchased our own OMAX Maxiem 1515 at full price as part of the new school. OMAX has generously supported us with maintenance, training and spare parts. Barton abrasives has donated our garnet abrasives for the past two years. We have used 3.5 tons of garnet in the past three years for our own projects and other school's robotics parts.
We are indebted to these companies for sponsoring us in this way.
We have found that the waterjet is useful for many projects throughout the school. It is a great way to get started into computer aided manufacturing if you have the room.