[TheForge] heavy metal math/c frame press

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Steam is a gas, not a liquid, even saturated or super saturated  steam.  
Gases can be compressed and can carry a lot of energy.  Water cutting 
jets are an entirely different animal, they have extremely high volume 
high pressure pumps not really comporable at all to ordinary hydraulic 
systems.

Charles

Grover Richardson wrote:

> 
>A small diameter stream, under great pressure can cut you in half.  I
>remember stories of repairmen walking through a steam room with a broom
>waved in front of them.  The steam stream would cut the broom handle instead
>of their bodies<G>.
>
>There are several companies that use liquid streams to cut things.
>  
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