Thanks Keith.

Sure a lot more to it than changing knives on my uncles old mowing machine. Sure there’s keeping it clean of dirt etc, but the rivet action is sort of the same. Good job of jiggin the impeller to keep it flat as it went back together. Another Stellar job Keith 👍😃

Nice work, the Wazer is a very impressive piece of equipment. I have been a subscriber for about 10 years now and have been amazed by the Plasma Cam and now the Wazer. I was thinking (again, no good can come of that) , when you cut out parts on either machine why don't you have the machine use cuts that exist rather than move over, say an 1/8", and make a parallel cut? BTW, I can't think you enough for the recent video from my favorite KZbin Creator. KOKO!

When we do small rivets out of copper or aluminum, we use a setting tool that has a doming head for finishing off the rivet. Would a tool of such nature be of any use for setting the rivets on these?

Just imagine how much riveting goes into an aluminum car like a Shelby GT!!!

WOW! That weld bead is a stack of dimes. Beautiful, Sir

Have you made the same part in corse and in fine to see the difference of the cut?

Enjoyed the comparisons.

Make a cool small water turbine

Might be time to fab up a steel impeller that can handle the chunks produced by this shop!

So Kieth, do you know what the root cause of the blades breaking? Are the rivets giving up the ghost or is something going through the blower? The other thing is you should mount the impeller on a ground shaft and check it for runout and then balance it. Do you know what R.P.M. that it runs? You should go and watch it in operation and make sure it doesn't shake shake shake!

Reminds me of a "Mystery" I solved many years ago! We sold a Vacuum pump used in Hospital systems. The thing had a Dodge "Paraflex" coupling between the pump and motor and had a "Squirrel-cage" fan around the coupling for cooling air flow. Suddenly we started getting reports of the fans coming apart. I'd get them back with the two "rings" and all the blades in a box! After a while I did some digging around in the service report database (that I managed) and came up with something interesting! Every one that had a fan come apart had had a coupling failure sometime prior! FINALLY, I got a fan that only had ONE blade come loose. The one with a hole in it for the tech to put an "Allen wrench" through. They had to take the fan off to replace the coupling (coupling failures were a different issue and we figured out why THOSE happened). Seems instead of using a "T-handle" wrench they were using a standard one with the long leg through the hole to the setscrew, turning them with vice-grips (or whatever). If they put stress on that blade the weld on one end would break and eventually it would shed that blade, then another, and another, until they ALL went! Real head-scratcher! 🤔

Hey Keith, have you ever used Zirconiated Tungsten, it can handle about the same amps as thoriated, but does not get horns/spikes on it and it balls up like Pure......you can run with a higher amperage without blowing your tungsten up.....I use it on my Synchrowave 250 like you use...... best wishes, Weldor Paul

be interesting to pull back those bellows covers to see if any rusting is taking place. (Im sure they've considered and planned for this to not happen - but still .... do you ever look under there)

when the Wazer is cutting underwater, looks like farting in the bathtub.........oh my

I kept waiting for some George Micheal music from your WHAM program, what happened....Wake me up before you Go Go.....

How do they balance it again, or not your problem?

this video kept me Riveted .......outstanding.....

Happy Friday and Weekend too Mr Keith.......sure wish I was on the Cape so I could drop by one day......best wishes from Orlando, Paul in the mean time, Giter Done.......

Looking forward to this. ...an hour later I wasn't disappointed.

I own a shop with 2 flow waterjets, that wazer machine is just plain awesome. while I might cut 3" thick Steel with ease, most people simply dont need that.

Errr, are you living in America then ?. It's hard to tell. All those machines to accomplish what they do in India, with a mushroom headed, rusty hammer that's been in use for 2000 years and a pair of sandals held together by string and faith. And they all do that while knee deep in swarf and muck...... Sorry, Keith, I've got a twisted sense of humour. Greetings from England, if you are still with us. I watched your shows for years, and it encouraged me to set up my own little workshop cum garden shed with Machine Mart bench top lathe and milling machine on which I spent many a happy time until my health deteriorated. At least I've lasted far longer than the Chinese junk did.

horses for courses here, if you want to just pop out a mild steel base plate with holes and crack on with a job then its plasma all day long, if you want super crisp brass plate cut or any other exotics then its waterjet for sure, we have both industrial machines here in my home shop and we use them accordingly. your waterjet part took 2 hours but you never said how long your plasma part took ? i would guess at under 10 mins easy. waterjets are the ducks nuts but every machine has its place. good video mate, keep em coming.

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Some anti-spatter and better settings on the PlasmaCAM would produce better results than shown. It will never compare with a commercial waterjet, especially on stainless, to be sure but I’m not sure the difference is that dramatic between these two with the exception of a degree or three of bevel on plasma cutting. I can see where that could be an issue on some parts. I usually send those files to my local steel company and have them cut on their 6kW laser.

Interesting comparison. Perhaps you could optimize the program for the plasmsa to account for the pierce dross? Maybe pierce the center of the end of the slot and walk a circular path outward to finish radius. 🤔

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Hi Keith, Laser cutters have similar problems as well, the tail of the beam trails the entry side, and in thick material results in a hole to the exit side where you have a nice sharp corner to the entry. Plasma usually causes a larger hole on entry point compared to cut width, which can be avoided by punching through in waste and running up to the actual cut line. Every option has its good points and bad. I was quite surprised that your wazer would cut that thickness. That was pretty impressive from a small machine, and did it quite quickly. I know the big ones can handle significant thicknesses, but are a lot more powerful and expensive. I have seen Jason from fireball tools cut like a "b" shape out of a piece of steel bar, about 200mm long, so 200mm depth, that was impressive, and the kerf width was pretty even top to bottom. We are certainly living in a time where there are more ways to do things. Regards, Dennis.

G'day Keith, remember back when we did this type of job manually or outsourced to a commercial cutting shop? Small jobshops are all about trying to do as much in-house to maximise the profits (that is how I roll). The Waza Pro accuracy is more than good enough for most jobs , at reasonable machine purchase price, that a small job shop can afford. Very few small shops can stump up 100k-200k in the current economic climate.

I had no idea a Wazer could handle anything that thick in stainless.

Thanks for sharing Keith

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Very nice comparison on the two systems. The water jet has a cleaner margin and doesn't leave a heat effected zone on the part. Thank you!

seeing your back on utube and not even promoting rumbel and even having changed name from the turnwright machine works i figure a lot must have happened , would it be beneficial to go back thru your vids to find out what or did it never get explained on utube?

I'm sorry but did I miss where the plasma flange cut out time was said?

Nice work on the Wazer... Curious... Are you using Deionized water in that system or running any pre filter?

Best Wishes from Orlando Keith, Cheers from your Number 1 fan in Orlando.....Paul

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Did I hear you right, Its takes 2HRS to cut that out. Who knew

A commercial water jet would make your part in about one tenth a time with about ten times the accuracy. It will be reasonable for all those measurements to be within one or two thousandths of an inch of each other. While cutting it 10 times the speed the rate of abrasive utilization will be about the same so it would actually use one 10th the amount of abrasive which is of course the major component of the cost of operation. The primary difference between real water jet machine and the wazer is a commercial water jet machine will cut at about 60 to 90,000 PSI which makes a huge difference. Because the energy conveyed by the water stream is related to the square of the velocity a much higher pressure has a profound effect on the energy conveyed to the part and the rate at which it can be cut. The accuracy, time and cost are all vastly improved. I routinely make parts on the water jet in steel up to about two inches thick although much of my work is in thinner materials. It will readily cut thicknesses well beyond two inches but I have never encountered a requirement for that in the work that we do . This machine has two axes of servo controlled tilt which allows it to correct for taper so even thick cuts are quite straight. Without this correction cuts and materials starting at about one quarter inch show taper and up at 2 inches the taper is enormous and intolerable in many cases. The quality of the water jet is good enough to produce finished parts in many applications but in some applications we use it to cut blanks for subsequent machining where better tolerances and finishes are required. It's a very useful addition to traditional machining technology and saves a lot of time.

Olá amigo Keith,gostei de mais este trabalho e das considerações referente as peças!!! Boa sorte sempre!!!

Keith, When I was in the Navy in Groton, CT we referred to that waxy putty as monkey shit, too. We used it to seal electrical connectors and cable penetrations through bulkheads. It was a common reference in those days. Just like tattoo parlors, strip joints and locker bars outside the main gate of most Navy bases, that reference will likely soon be lost to history.

Regarding plasma cutting on stainless steel. There are plasma torches designed to use two different gases simultaneously. One gas is for the cutting arc and the second gas is used as a shield gas. The best results are to use what is called H-35 gas ( 35% hydrogen and 65% argon) as the cut gas and you can use nitrogen as the shield gas. The result is that you get a smooth clean cut surface on all grades of stainless steel with no oxidized cut surface.

Do you think using Rain-X on the inside of that hood make it easier to see the part as it's being cut or is it just unnecessary?

ROTFL!!! Keith, do you remember the poster of the mouse facing the Eagle’s talons with his middle finger proudly displayed in defiance! Yeah! We’re there buddy!

Interesting comparison. Thanks Keith!

An additional benefit with the water jet is the avoidance of a heat affected zone to speak of. I work with applications that may be several inches thick and require machining to true up edges. Heat affected zones may harden materials that will be hard on or destroy subsequent tooling.

Nice Keith

cummins.. Thanks for the video!! My son used to run a Laser cutter for a farm equip mfg. company here. Neat handy tool!

Great to see your business is doing great! ..... especially under democratic rule