{"id":243,"date":"2026-01-16T14:49:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T14:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki2\/?p=243"},"modified":"2026-07-28T11:47:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T10:47:49","slug":"the-material-isnt-cutting-and-water-is-spraying-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/cnc-machining\/waterjet-cutting\/troubleshooting\/243\/the-material-isnt-cutting-and-water-is-spraying-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"The material isn&#8217;t cutting and water sprays everywhere."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Check that the nozzle does not touch the surface of the material. There must be a minimum gap of the thickness of the Z-setting gauge between the nozzle and the top of the material. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Check that garnet flows freely through the abrasive supply hose. If there is moisture in the hose, clean it out. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In some cases, water moves into the tool head mounted garnet hopper. In this case, clean the abrasive solenoid and the hopper. Contact a member of technical staff, they will show you how to clean these parts. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/245\/the-material-isnt-cutting-properly-water-is-spraying-everywhere-but-the-garnet-is-definitely-flowing\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"245\">The material isn\u2019t cutting correctly. Water is spraying everywhere but the garnet is flowing.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See also: The material isn\u2019t cutting correctly. Water is spraying everywhere but the garnet is flowing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[15,56,68,54],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-troubleshooting","tag-cnc","tag-omax","tag-troubleshooting","tag-waterjet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397,"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}