Bedrock Scrub Plane

Can hardly wait

Jim in Burlington On

>Looks like a bunch of fun. I like the water jet idea alot.

Absolutely fantastic!

woodburnbob

>After your last post I did some googling on waterjet processes and technology. It looks like a lot of $3.99 commercial objects are actually cut out using this process. Capitalism being what it is, I take it that if you have big runs, you can do a lot of cutting cheap...on a per object basis. If your company billed you for what you've done here (free to you because the work is lunch hour or after hours time, I'm sure), what would the cost be? I have lots of other technical questions about what you are doing, but expect you'll be chronicling this highly interesting project for the rest of us as you have time.

Waaay cool

Jim Reed @ Tallahassee

>Keep us updated!

Re: Absolutely fantastic!

Andy Lincoln,In Dearborn MI

>Bob,

As I am told the company bills the waterjet out at $125/hr.

This covers the machine cost and the operator's wages,(but we don't see anything close to that on our checks:P !!) To cut the parts for 2 planes was a grand total of 23 minutes of cutting and about 5 mins of handling ,swapping sheets of steel.There are also ways to decrease the quality of the cuts which speed up the times and with some creative layout I could minimize the traverse lines(not cutting just moving from part to part) and speed it up even more.I'm just not sure how many I could cut in a production setting a 1/2 hr at a time.

Andy

Well Fiddle Sticks

Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native, Presently Away

>Sure beats what I had in mind. I was going to cut the parts out on a metal cutting bandsaw. Blimy waterjets! Can I get one at Harbor Freight? ;~)

Mighty fine show Andy, mighty fine.

In my book having access to free use of a waterjet counts for a YOU SUCK!!

Todd O.

Re: Well Fiddle Sticks

Derek Cohen (in Perth, Australia)

>Well just one question ... OK, two...

Is this a hand cranked water jet?

Can I build a copy out of MDF and a rubber hose?

Regards from Perth

Derek

Re: Bedrock Scrub Plane

Dean Lapinel

>So Andy,

You essentially designed the parts on CAD software specific to this waterjet cutter?

Dean

Is MDF a hand tool material?

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>Seems like you'd want to use white oak or the Aussie equivalent.

You need a Great Wheel, powered by border collies or similar (I guess chasing a video of sheep running loose), to generate enough pressure, I think.

Re: Bedrock Scrub Plane

Andy Lincoln,In Dearborn MI

>Dean,

The software that I drew the parts on did come with the waterjet.It is labelled/branded by the waterjet mfg.(OMAX).But our engineering dept. uses AutoCAD and the wj software will import .dxf and .dwg files from any source.The software is an easy to use ,limited feature,2D program that for me is very easy to use,AutoCAD is just plain overwhelming when I've attempted to use it.

Andy

Yes and so is...

Steve Kubien

>...plywood. Well, that was the conclusion of a debate on the Porch a few years ago. Of course, some people over there consider anything more that a sharp rock to be a power tool so YMMV.

Merry Christmas everyone.

Steve Kubien

Hmmm..........DXF files

Gary B. in Central NY

>I can see a new side venture opening up for you....We all Send your company batches of dxf's we would like to have cut out for all our toys, you can chop them up, someone else can make the blades, someone else do something else, etc. pretty soon you've got a co-op that replaces the sheperd tool kits.....at a very reasonable price. LOL