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

tommylight wrote:

but when life gives you lemons ....

Make 5 Axis!

Do you plan to use air plasma for that?

It'll be interesting to see how you handle the amperage changes (or feed rate changes?) required as the cut thickness increases due to changes in the angle. Or I guess you could figure that out up front with some simple trig... hmm.

At my old job, we had a ...many... axis high def plasma pipe cutter, and the bevels for weld prep to the "stab ins" became quite challenging. I am not sure how Alltra handled that exactly, but it was done in conjunction with pronest. Here is the exact machine, for those curious: www.alltracorp.com/alltra-pipe-cutting

At any rate, if anyone can pull it off, I'm sure it's you! I'm tuned in waiting to see some sparks!!

@MachineDude,
Dang you were close, it came out to exactly 110 Euro for parts only, and that high since i have to pay 5 E/piece for the KFL08 bearing, 5.5 E/P for LM12UU (4 of them), 29 E/P for china Nema 17 motor, 19 E/P for the lead screw with nut and coupling, etc ....
All this might change soon as yesterday found out some internal information's about the customs here, when ordering stuff from abroad as a private person they have total power to do whatever they see fit to get as much money as possible, but when ordering as a company they must stick to the legal 19% tax + 10% customs + some bureaucracy cr@p that can not go over 10%. I will have to test this promptly ! Will pay 40% gladly. Oh yes, they can not also pull the "we are busy" stuff at the cargo part.
@Snowwy,
I have searched and looked and analyzed plenty of pipe/tube cutting machines online and missed the one you posted, somehow ! Looks interesting and much easier to do for big diameters than what i use.
Still not sure how to go about for the square tube one. ...

not sure what kind of volume you plan to sell at but 3D printing is pretty slow if you need a bunch of parts. i don't think injection molding is something in need at this point but one other possible solution for the 3D printed parts might be casting plastic parts from a mold. that might open up a bottle neck in your production methods if you get something going in volume. probably faster than 3D printing but not as set up intensive as injection molding.

i know you can tint the casting material to what ever color you want and i'm pretty sure you could even make them glow in the dark they even have casting rubbers. i have some i got a while back for something but i might try casting wipers for the grinder project since the old ones are dry rotted and brittle on the 3" columns .

Not planing yet, just a thought.
But i do have 8 of 3D printers and building 2 small ones and a huge one.
Can not sell them as the post office here does not function at all, so only DHL is viable and that adds over 100$ to the price.

Gantries for 2 of the machines are nearly done, reductions, belts and Z axis monuts next.
Got news that legs for all 3 plate cutting ones are bent and painted black, waiting for the blue powder coat for the 150X150X4 Y axis. Not looking forward to all the holes and tapping that has to be done, but it has to be done.
Oh joy !
Need to start work on another two machines, mills, one for me for Alu and one for engraving text on Granite and marble.
More holes ....

Z axis mounted on both ! Back to work, reductions are trickier to mount with all the moving parts.
Regards,
Tom.