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Stone Conversations : Archive 8 : Message 00042

From: Norman Watts <Norman_Watts@zzzzzzz>
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 16:25:21 -0500
Subject: re; conversation

On Jan 6, 2005, at 4:10 PM, John VanCamp wrote:

Quoted text begins.I have seen amazing granite inlays created
with water jet cutters;
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funny you should post this. I just read a monograph the other day on
the use of water jets in cutting granite and was wondering if they can
be used as a carving tool in-the-round on softer stones. At 24,000 psi,
but I low water volume, I don't know what the back pressure is, or the
pressure drop function, but it might give interesting results

Norman Watts, Ph. D.
National Institutes of Health
50 South Drive, Rm. 1509
Bethesda, MD 20892-8025
Phone: (301) 402-3418
Fax: (301) 480-7629

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