3.5X1.5 Meters cnc plasma cutter

Last few days been working on this :

The machine dimensions are 4.2X1.75 meters, cut area will end up to 3.6X1.35 meters, so big enough.
Here are some details of the reductions on both sides:

Other side

Bottom part where the pinion and the big pulley are mounted, gutted two healthy Vexta 5 phase steppers to get the bearing holders and bearings that did the job perfectly:

This is how the frame looked yesterday:

Another shot of the reduction in place:

Regards,
Tom.
P.S.
Adding pictures to this topic also, later.
forum.linuxcnc.org/plasma-laser/35349-op...ea-and-a-lot-of-info

Video of moving gantry here:

Video of it cutting here:

Looking good so far Tom,

Cant wait to see it in action!

slightly bigger than what i have going on and it probably took you a week to toss it together compared to my 3 months of building :lol: i'm amazed by the ability to toss it together so quickly.

machinedude wrote: slightly bigger than what i have going on and it probably took you a week to toss it together compared to my 3 months of building :lol: i'm amazed by the ability to toss it together so quickly.

2 and a quarter days so far, full days from 10AM to 1AM!
Took me 5 days to make room for it as i had to rearrange the shop, to many things, waayyyyy to many things to move and clean !
This is my right hand after two days of drilling and taping hundreds of holes:

Back to work, no slouching allowed !

at least you did not bust a finger tip like me so be thankful. i give you credit on speed of assembly. wish i was able to work like that sometimes.

Tom glad to see you got your mojo working again:)

I quit the job at that factory, got tired of waiting for parts as they were miss handled by that Russian guy, for 3 years he did nothing!
I am to old to be waiting for anything any more!

Here is a video of the gantry moving at over 30meters/minute.

What kind of power supplies are you using Tom? Are they switch mode units or torodial?

any reason why it's running on the Z axis or is that just for testing movement until everything is configured and finalized?