You must include as much useful information as possible when asking for help or advice. Examples of this include unsafe instructions and unsafe modes of machine operation. The prices on fiber laser machines are going to get lower in the near future because the laser itself is now being made in more places than just Massachusetts.No posts or comments that encourages unsafe acts. I have a 5 x 10 Dynatorch table with a 100AMP High Def Hypertherm plasma and I will jump through many a hoop on the laser before considering taking it to the plasma. Aside from it being a most impossible on a plasma machine the dross clean up on a thousand parts might take a week of extreme drudgery.
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I surface the parts when they are still on the sheet and remove all dross and then break them off. I should also mention it has a footprint of 72" x about 40" deep, 5 feet high-ish.īelow is an image of about two days of cutting both 12g 304 and. Nitrogen is a good thing to use for stainless. I weld up long 12' pieces by indexing them and you cannot tell where the weld was. Paid for itself seven times over at least. I have about six hundred hours on it now and still cuts like the day I bought it.
#Dynatorch plasma table software
The software is now near perfect and was not two years ago when I got my machine. Because it is pulsed fiber, it never needs anything replaced except for a small lens about every 200 hours. It plugs into a 115VAC outlet and the 4.5KW machine will cut 1/4" stainless albeit slowly. If you have a flexible budget please consider a Fablight Pulsed Laser.
#Dynatorch plasma table upgrade
Most of the tables I looked at had the option to upgrade to servo motors. I think they have their own software package. They're in your backyard and generally regarded as a good company to deal with although I have no direct experience with them. Since you're in Minnesota you might reach out to Shop Sabre.
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You might also post an inquiry on the plasmaspider forum. Considering you were using a laser before just be aware the cut quality simply doesn't compare if that's a potential concern.
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You've got a solid budget to work with, have you looked into high def plasma machines? The cut quality is better than the standard plasma tables and I doubt any of the manufacturers producing those machines stateside are in the homemade league. Not a big deal for my usage, but that may add additional ops to the parts you cut. However the trade off using water to control warpage is the cut quality can suffer with more dross. I also cut a variety of metals so I opted for the water table with a bladder so I could easily play with the water feature to lower it for better cut quality or raise it to help reduce warpage on thinner stainless sheet. My use is geared towards fabrication and cutting parts that will get welded so I don't need laser level accuracy and from my understanding, if the stepper motors are sized correctly to the gantry the machine should cut well.
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Considering I just got my table, I'm not qualified to wax poetic about the intricacies of each feature or which software is going to get you out of the cheesy factor considering my machine has stepper motors and the Linux software.