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MILCO WATERJET
CUTTING SERVICES

AS9100:2016 & ISO 9001:2015 Registered Company

Industry Leading, High Quality, Fast Turnaround Waterjet Machining

HIGHEST QUALITY
WATERJET CUTTING SERVICES

MILCO WATERJET
SINCE 1990

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Waterjet Cutting Services and Abrasive Waterjet Machining

Serving the entire Unites States from Orange County, California

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Contract Waterjet Cutting Services

• AS9100:2016 registered
• ISO 9001:2015 registered
• Quick turnarounds
• Serving Huntington Beach since 1990
• Contact us today for a quote

Fast and Efficient Prototyping

• Waterjet is one of the most efficient ways to manufacture parts
• Rapid prototyping
• Fast lead times
• High quality and precision

Affordable Water jetting Service

• Waterjet saves you money
• Highly trained staff with 50+ years of experience
• Check out our “Savings with Waterjet” page for more info

Serving Numerous Industries

• Aerospace & Aeronautics
• Original equipment manufacturers
• Alternative energy, oil, wind and gas
• Architectural & Design
• Military & Defense
• Forging & Casting
• Construction & Heavy equipment
• Sign & Display
• Automotive
• HVAC
• Food Processing
• Specialty alloy & Component
• Sheet metal & Blanking

MILCO WATERJET PROVIDES OUR CUSTOMERS WITH THE FASTEST SERVICE, TOP QUALITY, AND BEST POSSIBLE PRICE!

Milco is a national leader in the Waterjet & EDM machining industry.

Waterjet is extremely versatile. MILCO Waterjet can cut a wide variety of materials that many types of cutting processes cannot do, or cannot cut as fast or as cost effective.

  • Waterjet Exotic and Unique Materials

    Acrylics, Lexan, Plexi-Glass, MDF Board, Carbon fiber, Laminate, Masonite, Hardwood, Textiles and Fabrics, Woven Kevlar, Fiberglass, Polycarbonate, Polypropylene, Rubber, Phenolic resin, Foam, Plastics, Leather, Composites, Stone & granite, Monolithic Isotope Carbon Fiber Sheet, Ceramic, Porcelain, PVC, Glass (non-tempered), Neoprene, Nomex sheet, Marble, Slate, G10 Garolite and UHMW.

  • Waterjet Metallic Materials

    Ferrous and Non-Ferrous Metals: Aluminum Alloys: 5052, 6061, Armor Plates, Brass, Bronze, Cabide, A2, D2, Copper, Hastelloy, Waspalloy, Invar, Inconel, Magnesium, Mild steel, Molybdenum, Monel, Nickel Alloys, Niobium, Stainless Steel: 304, 316, 17-4 ph, Steel, Tool Steel, and Titanium.
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MILCO WATERJET

Waterjet Cutting & Fabrication Advantage

Our waterjets are equipped with custom dual heads to process parts 2x faster.

Our dual waterjet nozzles can hold a positional tolerance of +/-.003” under best cutting circumstances. We can nest your parts to utilize this feature and save you money!

Waterjet edge quality reduces secondary finishing.

Our Tilt-A-Jet technology achieves a virtually zero taper on most materials and allows the best possible edge surface and cut quality.

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Benefits of Waterjet Cutting & Abrasive Waterjet Machining

Abrasive waterjet cutting at MILCO offers direct advantages to your unique application.

Net Shape Machining & Near Net Shape Cutting

MILCO Waterjet features an advanced “Tilt-A-Jet” taper compensation cutting head (Dynamic Cutting), which allows us to abrasive cut with our waterjet machines virtually zero taper angles or edges with most materials, up to seven inches in thickness. The finished product is achievable without any secondary machining process necessary saving you time and money.

Mechanical Properties are Unaffected

Waterjet cutting, and Abrasive jet Machining does not generate heat directly onto the part, therefore no heat affected zone (HAZ) is created. This does not hold true for laser cutting and plasma cutting. Laser cutting including Co2 and Fiber Laser along with plasma cutting, change the actual physical properties of the part alongside the edge. Therefore, waterjet cutting is ideal for cutting stainless-steel, aluminum alloys, tool steels with different Rockwell hardness’s, exotic alloys, and plastics or composites include applications that require no secondary operation, no stress cracking (HAZ), no discoloring and no distortion. Aerospace hardware manufacturing and mission critical component manufacturing is shifting a large amount of production to using waterjet cutting technology due to these advantages.

Quality Edge Finish

Waterjet cut edges are typically sanded due to the abrasive garnet utilized and possess a smooth finish. The surface finish or edge roughness is completely customizable based off of each and every customers’ requirements. The material type and hardness also have a direct correlation on edge finish, so the jet can be slowed down to compensate and create a smoother finish on harder or thicker materials. Engineers and machinists alike consider abrasive waterjet cutting a finish cut, which doesn’t have any burr, slag and/or discoloring due to thermal changes. This directly saves time and money since secondary machining operations such as deburring, and sanding are not necessarily needed and increase handling.

Part Nesting is effective in saving material and increasing material yield.

Alongside our programmers being able to fit or nest pieces together in ways that can allow for more parts to be made from a set amount of raw material, part nesting software allows our team to arrange your custom shaped parts on the sheet or plate to fully maximize material usage. Material is expensive and if we can arrange your parts to better allow for a few extra pieces these extra pieces will transcribe to savings. We also employ nesting parts within parts, this type of layout allows us to make use of remnant material and cut outs. Water Jet kerf is only .030 or .040”, this allows close nesting without damage of neighboring parts.

Wide Range of Different Materials

Waterjets can cut through any material, from soft and flexible rubber and foam to incredibly hard and dense materials such as titanium or nickel-based alloys. Heavy metals that have a high density and high Rockwell hardness also serve no match to the waterjet. Our abrasive waterjets can compensate the speed / feed rate of the waterjet nozzle to adjust the cutting speed to allow for all kinds of material. The harder or thicker the material typically the slower the nozzle moves. Waterjet can cut brittle materials that are not normally cut, or materials that would be a headache to be cut using other methods such as pre-hardened steels, and materials such as titanium, Hastelloy, Inconel, Niobium, stainless steel, tool steel and more.

No Tooling Change and Minimum Setup

Lateral forces with waterjet are negligible. Minimum tooling is needed. Materials are mostly secured to the machine frame with minimal clamping and mounting. This translates to shorter setup times. Multiple parts are cut in a single setup, and time between swapping out plates or sheets are reduced because tear downs are at a minimum.

WATERJET CASE STUDIES – Client Work Examples: Waterjet

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MILCO WATERJET TESTIMONIALS

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4/23/2011

  These guys do an amazing job. Sent them a quote, got a fast response and they beat the lead time they gave me. Very attentive and the quality is top... read more

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6/27/2020

  I needed a custom sign for my mom and Milco surprised the heck out of me. They did phenomenal work and it turned out great! Thanks again to the guys... read more

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    Milco Capability Summary

    To download a PDF copy of our Capability Summary, please click here.

    Certifications

    AS9100:D since 2010
    Nadcap since 2011 (Gold Merit)
    SBA Small Business Certified
    SDVOSB – Service-Disabled Veteran Owned
    US Small Business Chamber of Commerce
    SAM - System for Award Management
    DPAS / ITAR Compliant

    Industries

    AEROSPACE
    DEFENSE
    ENERGY
    TOOL AND DIE
    MEDICAL
    SIGNAGE

    Stats

    Year Est. 1990
    Corporate Entity
    30,000 sq.ft Facility
    Climate Controlled

    Codes

    CAGE CODE: 1XBS7
    NAICS: 332710
    DUNS: 627208804
    NIST SP 800-171 DoD
    SIC CODE: 3599

    Non-conventional machining is vital to many companies and businesses throughout the United States, providing quality services to support a wide variety of industries.

    • Capable of cutting most ferrous and non-ferrous materials
    • Machine annealed or heat-treated material
    • Tolerances of +/-.0002” achieved routinely with Wire EDM
    • Utilizing wire diameters .004”, .006”, .008”, .010” and .012” (Norm is .010”)
    • Accurate tapers of up to 30 degrees, depending on material thickness

    • High velocity waterjet 30,000–60,000 psi.
    • Abrasive cutting using garnet.
    • Produces no heat damage to workpiece surface or edges.
    • Produces a taper of less than 1 degree with dynamic head.

    SPECIFICATIONS

    WIRE EDM

    NA1200 15.74” x 11.80” Z=8.66
    FA 13.7” x 19.68 Z=11.81
    (2) FX 9.84“ x 13.77” Z=8.66
    110 11.81” x 17.71” Z- 10.5” (14.0” Special)
    MV1200 15.74” x 11.80” Z=8.66
    MV2400 23.6” x 15.74” Z=16.5

    SMALL HOLE EDM

    CT500F 13.8” x 19.0” Z=12.0”
    SD35Y 13.4” x 9.85” Z=16.0”
    SD22P50 12.0” x 8.0” Z=15.0”




    SINKER EDM

    EX8 11.80” x 9.90” Z=8.80”
    (2) EX22 19.7” x 15.70” Z=14”





    WATERJET

    (2) Omax machines 55” x 100” Z = 6.5’
    (1) Omax machine 55” x 100” Z = 7’ with taper control head
    2 ton crane for loading and unloading
    Forklift on site

    Past Performances

    Wire EDM inside and outside periphery leaving .008” wall in 4 places (aerospace)
    Sinker EDM .383” square with 4 corner radii .015” x .3” deep (robotics)
    Small Hole EDM .012 dia thru hole in Nitralloy using a frozen process
    Waterjet 32,000 pcs Flat Pattern left in skeleton (weapons co)
    Waterjet 3,200 pcs coupons (aerospace)

    Machinable Metals

    Metals of all Alloys, Brass, Copper, Tool Steel, Aluminum, Titanium, Rubber, Stone, Ceramic, Plastics, Glass, and many more…..

    For health and safety reasons we will not accept any carcinogenic materials

    Quality Inspection Information

    • Vision Measuring Machine (VMM)
    • Comparator
    • Tool Makers Microscope
    • Precision Gauge Blocks
    • Hand held calipers, micrometers and indicators

    Preventative maintenance and calibration on all machines.100% inspection on incoming materials and parts. First piece, during production inspection and 100% inspection upon completion of all jobs

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