Can you cut through steel with a wet rope?

[Ariel Badger]

Given a bit of time you can
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[Alexio]

Although, if the ropes are wet I also would suspect that a layer of rust is forming each time and then subsequently removed the next time the rope is placed in the ever widening grove.
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[colin1]

I doubt there was much time for rust to form, when those grooves were made.

Here is water jets cutting steel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1YjqouRDVo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9hAM68K9OU
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[Ariel Badger]

Thanks Colin, very interesting and of course the same principle. It is neither the water or the rope that cuts but the grit ithey pick up.

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[stinkwheel]

They cut blocks of jade using a bow saw with a blade made of string and carborundum powder.
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[Pete.]

I suspect that handrail is actually cast iron - much softer than steel to cut.

Wal is correct about the waterjet cutting the work is done by garnet suspended in the water - the water is just a carrier medium.

I do a lot of wire sawing to cut concrete. The kit we use is a very high strength carrier cable on which are fixed steel round beads coated in industrial diamonds. Very effective at cutting almost anything. Very early versions of this were done by rope which had grit bonded to it by glue. Here's some stuff I've cut:
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[MattHirst]

[Pete.]

And concrete.

Water alone cannot cut through metals like steel in any reasonable timeframe.
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132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[Tristan.]

fucking hell Geri, whats the first one for, a supervillains lair?

[ms51ves3]

[Blau Zedong]

The thickest material I cut regularly "water only", i.e. without abrasive is 10mm rubber. For sure you can cut thicker stuff (and certianly thin gauge alloys) without garnet but the finish tends to be crap (cut edge is tapered to fuck). The thickest material we've done at work was 70mm stainless....from memory the jet took about 2 minutes to pierce the workpiece
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[MattHirst]

You get to a certain thickness and a plasma cutter will probably be more efficient, although with any type of cutter, the thicker the material then you will get a tapered edge (as the water/abrasive, plasma jet or whatever you are using will wander and 'deflect').
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