You’d like the results off the ESAB SGX tables running mixed gas. Super clean aluminium cuts.With Alu you should get very little dross except where is passes over a bar but the cut edge is always a kind of rough edge, 2 seconds running the flap disc over it cleans it fine for welding but it is not smooth like steel is when direct off the table.
Aye, maybe, wouldn't like the price or running costs thoughYou’d like the results off the ESAB SGX tables running mixed gas. Super clean aluminium cuts.
Just a table from xtreme wouldn’t be too much. Looking at threads on here by the time you factor in all the research, time gathering the consumables and then building it you’re not gonna be far off a machine ready built.
saying that you probably get a higher spec table for the time and money spent.
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The one I have at the moment is not the best as it had been designed for a limited space workshop so it was to tilt out of the way when not in use. As I just started to progress with the build I got gifted a shipping container so that was now the home for the plasma but I had to continue with the original design (minus the swivel) due to it being already started and also I didn't have time to alter as the table was needed for a few jobs I had lined up.
Electronically/electrically it is good, no changes needed there, so that part will remain the same on the table I am currently constructing.
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I would also be tempted to see if I could look at making it suited to adding a router for cutting wood or engraving metal etc. Not sure if its desirable to make a multi purpose machine but I always fancied something that could be used for more than just plasma cutting.
Would be handy to have some sort of feedback recorder on the electronics to trace items placed on the bed, like a 2d version of a cmm machine
Servos can help in that respect but they are not the route most take due to the price.It's kind of not worth trying to make a jack of all trades. The "spindle" mass of a plasma torch is nothing, and you have no resistance, so the gantry can be built accordingly.
Stick a big motor on there and start pushing it through material and you need a heavier gantry. Which then has more mass, more inertia, slower tracking moves, etc.
I mean it all seems possible, but physics gets in the way, and you end up with a master of none.
Just a diamond stone dresser on a spring loaded arm deployed with an air cylinder would likely do for marking. Maybe even just using the plasma cutter at a fast rate of knots and low power would do, never tried though.Something I would of liked for ours is either plasma marking with Argon or Pneumatic engraving.
the next machine up had the engraving feature as an extra and the pro machine could do marking.
That was the downside I was thinking of.
What spacing do you have on the bars?
The upside is there are only small contact points for the arc to cut through so the majority of the time they will be missed. When cutting Aluminium, assuming you have everything correct, then the only time you get slag is when the arc crosses or runs along a bar.
Is yours one that has the square pattern slats? I have seen them, maybe Xtreme tables, and they seem to have a large space between the squares.Pretty wide spacing which can be an issue cutting small parts, did see someone had made a frame with fine mesh to slide under when cutting small stuff.
Is yours one that has the square pattern slats? I have seen them, maybe Xtreme tables, and they seem to have a large space between the squares.