Rods "Spaceship" Scratch built Plasma Cutter build

rodw wrote: ............ I'm too embarrassed to share!

We would not be embarrassed to watch it at all !

tommylight wrote:

rodw wrote: ............ I'm too embarrassed to share!

We would not be embarrassed to watch it at all !

I'm going to have to read this thread/book of yours one day...

Well I bought a small accessory for my plasma cutter at an online auction which got delivered on Monday.




Then they poked it under a vehicle hoist

and extended the boom and placed it right against the back wall!

I even scored a bonus pallet of tooling which was not in the listing.


This is a 2.0 metre, 50 tonne Amada press brake with NC control. Its been retrofitted with a Presstek touch screen 2-3 years ago and there was a business card for the guy that did it on the machine so he's been helpful. It was also fitted with light guards at that time which replaced an old guarding system so there are a lot of spare wires floating around in the control panel... It was only a mile or so from work, so I figured I'd never get a cheaper one.

I saw it powered up before I bought it but they disconnected it before I saw it after the sale. The power connection was not easy to find so its taken a while to sort it out but I have an electrician booked tomorrow. There is some dodgy mains wiring in the cabinet that I will get cleaned up while we are at it. It was never wired in according to the manufacturer's directions so I'll get the power away from the logic.

Amada also have been very helpful. He said he wanted to get me to upgrade my spaceship to his laser!

So hopefully this does not end in tears tomrrow!

hard part is out of the way now getting it in the building is most of the battle the rest is just time consuming

keep your fingers out of the way that machine will most likely do some damage

Send it back, it has fingerprints all over the screen !
Very nice.

machinedude wrote: hard part is out of the way now getting it in the building is most of the battle the rest is just time consuming

keep your fingers out of the way that machine will most likely do some damage

Thanks, it will be pretty hard to get fingers in the way I think as its got all the latest light guards right across the front from the yellow box on the left.

I think the hard part will be putting the shop back together and tidied up! It took a bit to clear the way for it. Once I work that out I'm going to take the spaceship off its wheels and probably bolt it down somewhere in front of it.