Sell Your Used Waterjet

Get an offer on your waterjet

Tell us what you have and how to reach you, and we will come back with a route and a number — usually the same day. The make and model of your waterjet are enough to start.

Why sell your waterjet to KD Machinery

On a waterjet the pump is the machine. It is the most expensive thing to rebuild, the first thing a buyer asks about, and the reason two tables that look identical sell for very different money. 178 of the waterjets we have handled run a 50 HP pump and 110 run a 30 HP, so we know what those pumps are worth at a given hour count rather than guessing. Flow is the make we have traded most at 224 machines, with Omax at 98, and 202 of ours are 60,000 PSI systems.

What decides what a used waterjet is worth

The pump: horsepower, type, and hours since the last rebuild of the intensifier or the seals. 178 of ours are 50 HP and 110 are 30 HP.

Operating pressure. 202 of the waterjets we have handled are 60,000 PSI machines, and the higher-pressure systems cut faster but are judged harder on pump condition.

Table size, in feet, and whether the slats and the tank have been maintained or left to corrode.

The cutting head, and whether it is a taper-compensating or five axis head rather than a fixed one.

Water treatment: closed loop system, chiller, and whether the abrasive removal is manual or automatic. These decide what it costs to run and buyers price them in.

Control and software generation, and whether the seat and license transfer with the machine.

Hours on the pump and on the machine separately. They are not the same number and conflating them costs credibility.

How to sell a waterjet

A waterjet is bought on pump condition and tank condition, and both are easy to evidence or to hide. Before it is listed:

Record pump hours and the date and scope of the last rebuild, with the paperwork if you have it.

Photograph the pump, the cutting head, the slats, and the inside of the tank. An unpumped tank full of spent garnet is the single thing that most reduces an offer.

Run it and film it cutting, at pressure, with the pressure reading visible.

Say whether the water treatment is closed loop and whether the chiller and garnet removal are included.

Note the software version and confirm the license can be transferred, because a table that arrives without usable software is a table the buyer cannot run.

Selling a waterjet: common questions

The pump is due a rebuild. Should I do it before selling?

Usually not. A rebuild you pay for rarely returns its cost when you come to sell, because the buyer discounts work they did not commission and cannot verify. What does pay is documenting the pump honestly — hours, last rebuild, what it needs. A buyer who can price the work accurately bids higher than one guessing at the worst case.

Does the tank need to be cleaned out?

Yes, and it is the cheapest thing on this page that will make you money. Spent garnet hides the tank floor and the slat condition, so a buyer assumes the worst about both. Pumping it out and photographing a clean tank removes the largest unknown in the machine for a day of work.

Is an older 60,000 PSI machine harder to sell than a 90,000 PSI one?

No, they sell to different shops. Higher pressure cuts faster and suits high-volume production, but it is harder on consumables and the pumps cost more to keep. A great many job shops specifically want a 60,000 PSI machine because it is cheaper to run and simpler to maintain, and 202 of the waterjets we have handled are exactly that.

Can you take the chiller, the closed loop system and the garnet removal too?

Yes, and you should sell them together. The auxiliaries were sized and plumbed for that table, so they are worth more as part of a working system than as separate items on a list. A buyer purchasing a complete cutting room is buying something that runs; a buyer purchasing a bare table is budgeting for everything else.