2+2+3 More Plasma builds, double the joy ! 3X2M and 2.5X1.5M cnc plasma build.

machinedude wrote:

i'm not sure why you would need the stock to pass through anything unless you need a spindle bore through hole for a 20 foot bar with a bar feeder of some sorts so things pass through the chuck driving the square tube ? something like that would need a hydraulic chuck in that case.

Exactly, they need it for trusses, so always different sizes and cut shapes.

After some fine tuning and setting materials in the PlasmaC database, did a quick mock up of manchester united logo and let LinuxCNC do it's thing. Did some more tests on 15mm thick plate so stay tuned for the next video.
Also arranged a bit the cables and the laptop power brick, had to open the plasma cutter as it was cutting only at 55A so turned out that the new torch and cable is not the same as the original one and had to trick it into thinking it is the original cable. Turns out 120A can cut through 15mm of material and 30mm of slats easily !

So finally got to do some production parts run on 15mm thick plate and used the PlasmaC shape-shifting-wizard-thingy, oh what a joy it was and is to use it, but more on that tomorrow with the complimentary video, so stay tuned.

Grotius wrote:

Soon i will visit servie and kosovo.

You are always welcomed, but no hugging !
F@kin chinese and WHO !

Here is the T2030 cutting 15mm thick plate at 80A, but i think it could have done it a bit faster than 300mm/m, i was chickened out to try it ! At over 1000 Euro a plate (6x2m) they are not cheap.
Back to the PlasmaC wizard, it is magnificent for very quick designs of industrial parts and very easy to use, the part being cut was designed in 1.5 minutes flat while teaching one of the guys there, it has 10 holes of 24 mm and the outside dimensions of 180x713mm, It does correctly set the feed rate to 60% for that size of hole and the holes came out much better than i thought. Much better!
Thanks to PhillC for all the time and effort he has put to make PlasmaC, to Peter a.k.a PCW for some magnificent pieces of electronics he makes at Mesanet.com and thanks to the LinuxCNC developers and the community for their hard work on Making LinuxCNC what it is = an astonishing machine controller.
Said it several times, but i will say it again : a well configured and setup LinuxCNC machine with Mesa stuff and PlasmaC will put to shame most industrial machines !
Regards,
Tom

You need to get some water in there to protect those slats Tom.

Thanks for the kind words.