Off the Jet

This week we had a fascinating little project that came in to be cut on the waterjet. It is a helix gear out of a wind turbine. A couple of these gears have been failing and sample of the metal needed to be sent away for testing. Due to the size of the gear it wasn’t feasible to send the whole thing so we were tasked with cutting out a few chunks – and by chunks we are talking over 50mm thick by over 390mm long which took just over 3 hrs of machine time.