pic: Team 359 Flow WaterJet Installation

[waialua359]

Originally Posted by JamesCH95

Very cool install, I'm sure the water jet will serve you well!

Out of curiosity, what feature(s) did you consider that lead you to choose a water jet vs a cnc plasma cutter/router table?

This is a really good question.
I cant even recall the exact reason why or how we got the idea to get one since its been so long.
However, we decided to get one independent of anything else.

Our total funding I was able to get was $750,000 for which I used 1/3 towards renovations and the rest for equipment such as our jet, computers, a Sharp minimill, lots of tooling, and our nice big trophy case.
I have either been very lucky or very good in creating our business plan and proposals to get funding.

The largest one I got was back in 2005 when we wrote for 1.92 million and actually got it the 2nd time around, failing the year before. That's when we decided to kickstart our FRC program again after giving it up at the end of the 2003 season.