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Water Jet Was the Only Way For Paper Mill Part
01 Apr 2003
World Wide Water Jet (WWW), of Herne Bay in Kent, recently provided a cost effective and time saving solution to a problem. Their customer, a heavy engineering company, needed to supply a 118mm thick stainless steel replacement part for a paper mill. Water jet cutting is the only known method of cutting material of that thickness to the degree of precision required.
The existing part was a 118mm thick 316 stainless steel casting. To replace with another casting would have been both costly and probably taken months to source. WWW profiled the required shape on the water-jet from a billet cut from a 118mm long stainless steel bar. The finished edge quality of the profile was such that the outer face was left as cut. The inner face was cut with a machining allowance for the customer to machine back.
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