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want to get it into the car as soon as we can. If you tell me we have a new part that will make the car faster, but we can’t have it for three weeks, well, that sucks. I want it now! Every week- end that goes by without that new part is a missed opportu- nity. Tanks to our Jet Edges, we can have that part right now.”
A Valued Partner Waltrip values the Jet Edge systems so much that he
surprised the small family-owned St. Michael, MN, manufac- turer by running a Jet Edge-decaled car in the 2012 Sylvania 300 NASCAR Sprint Cup race in Loudon, NH. Vickers drove
Jude Lague. “And then when they told us they were running another Jet Edge car at Martinsville, we were ecstatic. We’ve been with MWR since the early days when they were strug- gling, and we are very proud to be associated with them. Tey are a first-class organization and they have our full support. We wish MWR the best of luck this championship season and will be cheering for them to bring home the Cup!” MWR installed its first Jet Edge waterjet in 2008. Tat
original system, a Jet Edge High Rail Gantry, features two three-axis abrasive jet cutting heads and a pneumatic drill for predrilling material that is sensitive to delamination. It is
“If you tell me we have a new part that will make the car faster, but we can’t have it for three weeks, well, that sucks.”
the #55 Toyota Camry to a ninth-place finish. In April 2013, MWR surprised Jet Edge yet again by running a bright “Jet Edge blue” #55 Toyota Camry in the STP Gas Booster 500 at Martinsville Speedway. Vickers started third and drove to a respectable 11th-place finish despite suffering major damage during a multicar wreck on lap 180 and cutting a tire with only 50 laps to go. “We were blown away when MWR told us they would be running a Jet Edge car at Loudon,” said Jet Edge President
powered by a 90,000-psi (620-MPa) Jet Edge X-Stream pump, which MWR added as an upgrade in 2009 to increase cutting speed. In 2013, MWR installed Jet Edge’s latest Edge X-5 five- axis machine, which is capable of cutting beveled and taper- free parts from virtually any material. It equipped its Edge X-5 with both a five-axis head and a three-axis head to double productivity. Te new waterjet is powered with Jet Edge’s 55,000-psi (380-MPa) iP55-100 hydraulic intensifier pump and features IGEMS CAD/CAM/Nesting soſtware designed
Machinist Brian Wallace operating the Edge X-5 five-axis waterjet at MWR. Wallace runs Jet Edge’s applications lab.
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