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.