Repurposed Plasma Table

[Gadget]

As much as I love that table I feel like my brain's going to explode when I think about how to make it a working plasma table. You must know some things about how they work and how to get this one to do what you want. I have no experience in this, I just know I want one. I'm in way over my head going this route. I need the one a monkey can set up.
Great find Nicholas and best of luck to you on the build.

The ones that a monkey could set up probably cut like it was done by a monkey.

[JolietJames]

Ha! Then I need to make friends with someone like you guys who have already done this. Can anyone be bribed with beer or something I can make with my tubing bender???

[Nicholas]

As much as I love that table I feel like my brain's going to explode when I think about how to make it a working plasma table. You must know some things about how they work and how to get this one to do what you want. I have no experience in this, I just know I want one. I'm in way over my head going this route. I need the one a monkey can set up.
Great find Nicholas and best of luck to you on the build.

Thanks James,
I think it would be no problem for you to build your own table. To me tearing a jeep down and rebuilding the way you do would be more complicated. If you don't have a friend with some machine tools you can buy parts ready made. Also I think Gadget said it, that by building it out of or with readily available parts when it comes time to fix or trouble shoot you will know the machine. And you can build whatever size table you want, the control and software you use will work for any size. Spend a little time at the CNCZONE, then decide if you want to build one.

Here is a link to a table build, there are tons of them. This guy is good.
New Machine Build building 2 5x10 plasma tables - CNCzone.com-The Largest Machinist Community on the net!

[JolietJames]

Thanks for the link Nicholas. I'll check it out.

[brucer]

Here is a link to a table build, there are tons of them. This guy is good.
New Machine Build building 2 5x10 plasma tables - CNCzone.com-The Largest Machinist Community on the net!

thats a nice build for sure,I would hate to buy those linear rails and trucks.

heres a video of a cncrouterparts type table... uses like 2" cold roll rails and cncrouterparts trucks/skates..
http://youtu.be/8hyc8DfI-Tc

[WookieWelding]

thats a nice build for sure,I would hate to buy those linear rails and trucks.

heres a video of a cncrouterparts type table... uses like 2" cold roll rails and cncrouterparts trucks/skates..
"Dry" run on the plasma CNC. Rapids software capped at 720 IPM - YouTube

thats pretty cool i bet the cost is less