Waterjet question - cutting through tubing

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Originally Posted by Don Rotolo

Anyone who runs a waterjet will know how to do that.

This Thread has a link to some photos showing an Xbox cntroller cut up by waterjet - demonstrates that thick objects can be cut as well.

If you look at the X-box cut into an X photo, you can see how poor the finish is on the exit cut, relative to the entry cut.

If you tried to do both sides in one shot, that's probably what's going to happen. If it was solid, you could cut something 12" thick if you really wanted to, and had a big enough pump, and the exit cut would be pretty decent.

the block of wood inside the tubing sounds pretty easy and simple to me.