Bearings in Sheet Metal

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Originally Posted by JamesCH95

It's called a 'kerf'. A skilled waterjet operator such as the gut I use for work can do a really good job minimizing the kerf's taper, even without a multi-axis head like Andy describes.

Last summer, I was trying to cut some 1 module (metric) gears with a waterjet in about .4" thick material. Unfortunately, the kerf that yo mentioned prevented the gears from meshing properly.

Could you elaborate as to the methods used to help eliminate kerf? We tried cutting extra slow, but it didn't seem to help much. If you can cut propper bearing press fit holes with a waterjet using proper methods, to seems like cutting gears of at relatively large module would be trivial.