http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/21/xbox-xbox-360-taken-to-console-heaven-by-water-jet-cutter/ Engadget Comments for Xbox, Xbox 360 taken to console heaven by water jet cutter http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/21/xbox-xbox-360-taken-to-console-heaven-by-water-jet-cutter/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/21/xbox-xbox-360-taken-to-console-heaven-by-water-jet-cutter/Jun 24th 2009 7:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/21/xbox-xbox-360-taken-to-console-heaven-by-water-jet-cutter/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/21/xbox-xbox-360-taken-to-console-heaven-by-water-jet-cutter/Oct 1st 2009 4:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/21/xbox-xbox-360-taken-to-console-heaven-by-water-jet-cutter/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/21/xbox-xbox-360-taken-to-console-heaven-by-water-jet-cutter/Dec 21st 2006 11:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/21/xbox-xbox-360-taken-to-console-heaven-by-water-jet-cutter/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/21/xbox-xbox-360-taken-to-console-heaven-by-water-jet-cutter/Dec 21st 2006 11:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/21/xbox-xbox-360-taken-to-console-heaven-by-water-jet-cutter/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/21/xbox-xbox-360-taken-to-console-heaven-by-water-jet-cutter/Dec 21st 2006 11:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/21/xbox-xbox-360-taken-to-console-heaven-by-water-jet-cutter/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/21/xbox-xbox-360-taken-to-console-heaven-by-water-jet-cutter/
That is so cool :D]]>Dec 21st 2006 11:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/21/xbox-xbox-360-taken-to-console-heaven-by-water-jet-cutter/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/21/xbox-xbox-360-taken-to-console-heaven-by-water-jet-cutter/
The problem with water cutting is that it leaves a V cut. The edge is not perfectly straight up and down which can wreak havoc when trying to machine something within spec. One fix is to cut from both sides and get an X cut, and another is to cut taking the V into account and then cnc down the edge.

The main advantage of water cutting is speed, and I'll bet this took waaaaayyyyyy more time to program the cutting tool than to cut through the console's even with the CAD programming interfaces.

I would love to see this in person.]]>Dec 21st 2006 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/21/xbox-xbox-360-taken-to-console-heaven-by-water-jet-cutter/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/21/xbox-xbox-360-taken-to-console-heaven-by-water-jet-cutter/
Me too!!

But until then, I can settle for some videos. Perhaps I'll search for some tonight.]]>Dec 21st 2006 12:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/21/xbox-xbox-360-taken-to-console-heaven-by-water-jet-cutter/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/21/xbox-xbox-360-taken-to-console-heaven-by-water-jet-cutter/
The edge is actually pretty smooth but it varies with the speed of the cutting head. It's like a sandblasted finish.]]>Dec 21st 2006 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/21/xbox-xbox-360-taken-to-console-heaven-by-water-jet-cutter/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/21/xbox-xbox-360-taken-to-console-heaven-by-water-jet-cutter/
As in, I bet this took like 15 seconds to cut.]]>Dec 21st 2006 3:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/21/xbox-xbox-360-taken-to-console-heaven-by-water-jet-cutter/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/21/xbox-xbox-360-taken-to-console-heaven-by-water-jet-cutter/Dec 21st 2006 2:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/21/xbox-xbox-360-taken-to-console-heaven-by-water-jet-cutter/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/21/xbox-xbox-360-taken-to-console-heaven-by-water-jet-cutter/Dec 21st 2006 3:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/21/xbox-xbox-360-taken-to-console-heaven-by-water-jet-cutter/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/21/xbox-xbox-360-taken-to-console-heaven-by-water-jet-cutter/Dec 21st 2006 3:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/21/xbox-xbox-360-taken-to-console-heaven-by-water-jet-cutter/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/21/xbox-xbox-360-taken-to-console-heaven-by-water-jet-cutter/
They probably did it for fun. :)

The Xbox's were bricked anyways.]]>Dec 21st 2006 3:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/21/xbox-xbox-360-taken-to-console-heaven-by-water-jet-cutter/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/21/xbox-xbox-360-taken-to-console-heaven-by-water-jet-cutter/Dec 21st 2006 4:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/21/xbox-xbox-360-taken-to-console-heaven-by-water-jet-cutter/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/21/xbox-xbox-360-taken-to-console-heaven-by-water-jet-cutter/Dec 21st 2006 11:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/21/xbox-xbox-360-taken-to-console-heaven-by-water-jet-cutter/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/21/xbox-xbox-360-taken-to-console-heaven-by-water-jet-cutter/
I work, and have worked, down the hall from theese two examples for about a year now. In fact, as I write this, I could get up and walk over to them, needing to pass through only a single door.

I'm curious if this was news when they were done to begin with, actually...]]>Dec 21st 2006 11:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/21/xbox-xbox-360-taken-to-console-heaven-by-water-jet-cutter/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/21/xbox-xbox-360-taken-to-console-heaven-by-water-jet-cutter/Dec 22nd 2006 8:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/21/xbox-xbox-360-taken-to-console-heaven-by-water-jet-cutter/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/21/xbox-xbox-360-taken-to-console-heaven-by-water-jet-cutter/Dec 22nd 2006 9:17AM