Cutting Steel Underwater

10 15 gpm 38 57 lpm operating range.

Cutting steel underwater.

Oxygen arc cutting advantages of the steel tubular electrodes. The co23 uses standard 10 inch 25 4 cm diameter abrasive or wet or dry diamond blades for cutting metals or concrete. Heat distortion occurs when you heat up one part of a plate and then let it cool causing uneven expansion and contraction. The system includes the broco br 22 plus torch uw ks knife switch and hvr 4401 regulator and broco exothermic cutting rods.

Cast iron stainless steel and non ferrous metals do not oxidize. Here is a short vid of some underwater cutting of steel with a exothermic torch and firewire rod. Welding equipment broco and arcair make high quality underwater welding and cutting equipment including torches stingers and cutting and welding rods. Therefore underwater cutting becomes a melting process.

Cutting under water keeps the entire plate cooler which reduces warping of the cut parts and the skeleton or scrap plate.