{"id":78,"date":"2025-10-21T15:28:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T14:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki2\/?p=78"},"modified":"2026-01-20T15:28:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T15:28:50","slug":"omax-maxiem-1515","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/cnc-machining\/waterjet-cutting\/78\/omax-maxiem-1515\/","title":{"rendered":"Waterjet Cutter &#8211; OMAX Maxiem 1515"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The waterjet cutter is unique in that it can cut almost any material &#8211; including but not limited to aluminium, steel, ceramics, glass, rockwool, and composites! Pretty much the only thing it can&#8217;t cut is toughened, or tempered, glass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mains water is pressurised up to 45,000 PSI (~3000 bar) and then mixed with an abrasive garnet. This mixture &#8220;sands&#8221; its way through the workpiece in the pattern you have defined. There is an amount of taper evident in thicker materials as the jet of water spreads out into a cone but this can be compensated for by tilting the 5-axis head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The maximum cutting area of the machine is 1200 mm x 1200 mm, but it&#8217;s best to keep sheet material under a metre square to ease handling. Maximum thickness varies depending on the material and the accuracy requirements but we&#8217;ve easily cut three inch thick mild steel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The waterjet cutter is unique in that it can cut almost any material &#8211; including but not limited to aluminium, steel, ceramics, glass, rockwool, and composites! Pretty much the only thing it can&#8217;t cut is toughened, or tempered, glass. Mains water is pressurised up to 45,000 PSI (~3000 bar) and then mixed with an abrasive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15,61,55,54],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-waterjet-cutting","tag-cnc","tag-equipment","tag-machinery","tag-waterjet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293,"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}