On Jul 1, 12:14*pm, Zombie of Woodstock wrote:
On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:29:36 -0400, Gene

wrote:
On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:25:43 -0400, HK wrote:

...ordered one of these as a gift for you on your 93rd birthday:

http://www.plasmacam.com/indexfla.php

That's a pretty interesting little machine! *I spent 12 years managing
a CNC programming department where we did just that!

We didn't do plasma, but we did do lasers... we did milling with
lasers.... can't (I don't think) do that with plasma....

One of the local shops has a high pressure, narrow throat water jet
cutter for ceramic and composite materials. *Cuts up to six inches of
pressure extruded composites and three inches of ceramic material.

Smoothest cut I've seen on that type of material.

That's impressive.

The system my wife's shop had (Turbo Products/Inco LTD.) in Essex had
a waterjet that could cut curved holes in metal (she is trying to
remember the name of the thing). This was a propriotary system to
Turbo they used to cut the curves surfaces of turbine blades and such
as well as cooling tunnels that snaked through metal blocks...

She is busy but said she will tell me more about it later.. I only
worked on the cad install in the control room, was never allowed in to
the machine as was the case. Basically only 4 people were allowed in
that area...