Plasma table

[MCKDAVID]

airborne smoke seems fine too, do you still have an extractor running in the container as well?

 

[Hood]

That soft sense is so much faster than the swift cut tables. That’s rapid.

In what way? the deployment or the motion of the axes?

 

[Hood]

airborne smoke seems fine too, do you still have an extractor running in the container as well?

I thought at first there was a fair amount of smoke but there was no smell to it so I think it was mainly steam.
I still have the extractor fan but it is not used, I may hook it up and have the tube up near the roof or I may just get an expelair type, will see how it goes.

 

[MCKDAVID]

you've an advantage being in a container, already a good capture area, like you say put one high up at the other end of the container and you basically already have an extract duct. As long as the fan has enough draw, (flow rate) it'll be fine.

 

[Brad93]

In what way? the deployment or the motion of the axes?

The deployment

 

[Hood]

The deployment

Be a devil and turn the air pressure up

 

[henry Kadzielski]

@Brad93 Do a vid and post it so we can all see how slow / fast it actually is

 

[Hood]

@Brad93 Do a vid and post it so we can all see how slow / fast it actually is

Doesn't look that slow.

 

[James1979]

Why do those tables do that? My xtreme uses the torch tip to find z0

 

[Hood]

It is just a different way of doing this. I built mine that way because I thought it a good idea, bit slower but no need to have a floating Z axis that I envisaged could cause problems down the line if it got gummed up.

 

[Hood]

I got the slats cut to size and inserted in the table.

The last 6 will be made up from this lot, I have to weld 200mm onto the length to get them to size so I will have plenty of spares if required.

As can be seen in the first pic I have the slave motor fitted again to the Y axis. Did a bit of tuning to both and it now seems good. I wrote some quick code to run the Y end to end and used an M47 at the end to repeat the code. I ran it for 2 hours and it never faulted so looks like I am good to go.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

so looks like I am good to go.

Good job! Now enjoy a Christmas rest.

 

[Hood]

Good job! Now enjoy a Christmas rest.

Would rather be at the workshop but sadly I am not allowed

 

[MCKDAVID]

+1

 

[ukracer]

Would rather be at the workshop but sadly I am not allowed

I will be soon... Have 20 litres of oil and two new belts.

 

[henry Kadzielski]

Just snuck in today to get some stuff and drop off other stuff, not allowed to do anything though
It's wife and maggot (kids) time, so they claim!

 

[Hood]

Went down to the workshop this afternoon with a plan. I found an old control panel I had made for one of my CNC machines and thought it would make a perfect test bed for the plan. I chopped it up so it was basically a tray and then welded up all the holes. I then placed it on the plasma and filled it up with a mix of cutting oil and water and cut a load of aluminium above it to see if there was any visible reaction.
All seemed good, no visible fumes, nothing went on fire and the aluminium dross seemed to ball up so I decided to go for it and fill up the table, worst comes to the worst I will have to drain it into drums and use on the mill/lathes and then purchase either GreenCut or PlasmaCut Blue although further research is required on both and any other I plasma fluid can find.

Here is a pic of what it looks like, nice mucky duck pond green

 

[MCKDAVID]

Could you no get blue..... Hahaha...

 

[Hood]

Could you no get blue..... Hahaha...

I am not a follower of the weegie plague

 

[MCKDAVID]

I know, only kidding... Sure it'll soon loose the bright colour as and when it fills up with aluminium dross