This CNC Plasma Table Might Just Be The Coolest Thing I've Ever Bought!!

hey what is going on guys welcome back to the channel today is one of the most exciting days I've had in the shop in a very long time I bought you guys saw the title I bought this thing a month probably about three weeks ago now almost a month and I've been doing my research I've been watching a ton of videos trying to figure out how to use this thing so I've been needing one of these for so long I cut a ton of Steel and I'm getting sick of the old cut off wheel the grinding flap disc I'm getting sick of all that stuff I kind of want to just hit a few buttons and have a nice piece of cut steel so I decided I'm gonna buy a plasma table so I picked up a table from langmier systems this is the crossfire Pro this is a 4x3 we're really close to a 4x3 table now they do have a smaller one I think once you buy the little expansion kit it's 25 by 33. now I was going to buy that just to kind of save some room in the shop but I decided if I'm gonna buy a table I might as well just buy a decent sized one that way in a couple months when I decided I wanted a bigger one I don't have to buy another table so we did the crossfire Pro I am so so it's excited for this thing I honestly haven't even got the whole table yet I'm waiting for one more big box but we do have the box with all the frame and then all the hardware and should be all the electrical too so we should be able to get the whole frame together get the electrical box mounted up and all that good stuff and we got to make some room in the shop for it I've already kind of rearranged the shop a little bit just to make some room over here by the compressor I'm going to move that little bench out of the way and the plasma table is going right there also another thing I did have to buy is a new plasma cutter because the one I have I think I have a Lotus that thing is a high frequency start and that screws with the electronics on the plasma table so I bought a prime weld cut 60. the nice thing about this one it's got a CNC port on the actual plasma cutter so we can wire directly from that to our plasma table and we don't have to mess with you usually have to take the plasma cutter apart get inside of it and get your like voltages for the torch height controller all that kind of stuff you got to get inside of the plasma cutter this one it's got a port on it so we can wire dry directly to that Port now like I said I have been doing all my research but I still got a ton to learn about this there's a lot on the back end kind of on the computer side of things that I really don't know about I've never really done any CAD design or anything like that plus never mess with G-Code any of that stuff so I have a ton to learn about but I think I got a fairly good grasp on what kind of the basics are so that being said guys let's get to work with the table so that should be all the frame and then that box should be all the electrical and all the hardware so let's bust these things open see what we got see if we can get this Frame together [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] foreign foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] well we made it a lot farther than I thought I would with our boxes that we got so I'm still waiting for that one box which has the whole water table I do have all the slats and everything up there but the table itself and then there's a bunch of like Corner gussets that that go on this table and maybe a few other little things oh the torch height controller which controls the height here with another or with this motor I guess here so we'll wait for a few more things but we got this thing ready to go we got our limit switches installed which is that one and that one there what's super nice about those limit switches is you can just come you don't have to set your zero every time so you got the machine settings there and then you can get this thing out of the way over here and all you got to do is hit home and home machine and it goes right back to home right where it should and another thing I did was set the soft limit so that is on this side so you basically run this out to right before it's going to smack into that bracket there and on the x-axis too so this machine will never bump into these brackets or it'll never smash into that bolt over there because with the soft limit so it stops it before it hits all that so it's super nice having that limit switch and also with that you can see all the coordinates are right here this is basically your cutting envelope right here this Square without the uh limit switches I don't think you have that so like I said once we get that other box in which supposed to be here tomorrow we can get the whole water table in get this thing filled up with water we do have to bust out the uh new cutter but that is going to be tomorrow as well so once I get that box in we'll get this thing finished up get all the gussets on get the table in get the torch height controller all set up there's one you can see THC the plug right there we're going to wire that in to the torch height control like I said [Music] [Applause] thank you [Applause] [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] what's up foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] guys we are just about ready to start cutting one thing I'm going to do real quick is I downloaded the break-in program and you can see the cut line or the break-in line basically just goes back and forth across the two axises just kind of breaking everything make sure everything's moving smoothly make sure there's nothing binding up now we did go through and I did weld this water table together they do give you sealant for this flange right here but I figured it's kind of a common area to leak anyway so I just uh TIG welded that up that's never going to leak now one thing a lot of people do is swap these drains out I did buy some better drains just because you can see it's only like a little half inch hole so I bought some bigger drains for those I haven't got them yet so once we get those in we'll throw new drains in it but for now let's run the braking program get this thing broke in I guess and make sure everything works smoothly and then we got to hook up the plasma we already got the torch mounted and everything all these wires are good to go but we do need to hook everything up to the plasma and then I did buy one of these motor guard filters just because you really want some clean dry air I do have a desiccant filter here and a water trap but I figured just for the plasma table I'm going to run that dryer too [Music] thank you all right we got Fusion 360 loaded up here and we are gonna go design something real quick just something very random not even sure it's just going to be kind of whatever make some angles here and there oop something like that I want to try some inside holes too so the point four that'll work there let's try one little smaller point two five try a quarter inch hole that looks good there let's go solid we're gonna extrude it real quick one two five I'm not sure if this is necessary but you can see we got a part I'm gonna put one more line wherever that line tool went we've got to do that get our line I'm gonna put a cut line just down the center so we can measure our kerf width there now we should be able to go to manufacture and we want to create a new setup here so you want to select cutting through there all right we got Fire Control open let's open that test file we just made and [Music] you can see here we got our part here but you can see it's over so this square is our machine basically the plasma table and you can see that line is over the actual machine so we need to move that in a little bit I'm not sure I think we just nest oh there we go there's manual nest and move that over all right so let's do a dry run without actually firing a torch so a dry run and we'll hit start and see what this thing does looks like it's cutting it out the circles first that looks like the outside perimeter of it and you can actually watch it on the screen as well so program complete looks like it worked let's get some steel get it on the table get it grounded and see what it does [Music] all right so what we got to do is set our zero so I'm going to put the bottom left corner kind of right in this corner here so we'll just toggle this with the buttons there [Music] get that where we want it so yeah right in that corner so we can do coming here zero all work axes that makes that start point right down in that corner right where we're at before we cut this out I'm gonna do one more dry run with this Steel on there so I'm gonna raise up the torch a little bit dry run and we'll start that [Music] and that looks like we're good let's get this thing fired up and cut it well I haven't even cut anything yet and I am so glad I went with the z-axis controller the height control just putting this one piece on it was warped a little bit I clamped that but you can still see it's kind of bent or warped a little bit I'm not sure what from but it is not straight so with having this height control as the plasma is cutting it senses the voltages and it varies and it keeps that same cutting distance from the actual steel so when it warms up when it starts to warp a little bit or if it's sitting on here not flat like it is right now it's going to keep that same cutting height all throughout the whole entire cut foreign foreign [Music] check it out first cut it was a success let's get this torch let's get that on continuous and let's get that out of the way and let's check this out so I know the that line like I said in the center the Pierce was on the side of it which I knew but all in all not too bad looks like a pretty decent cut the back does have some draws or some slag that's uh just settings I guess um now the spring back there's a spring back setting I think I set that at one thousandths or maybe ten thousandths and you can see that's a lot more than ten thousand so I'm not sure it's probably it was probably just cutting too high that's why there's so much dross on the back but I'm gonna mess around with it a little bit more see if we can get this thing to cut I'm gonna clamp this down or get a you know maybe I'll cut one out over here where it's more solid see if we can get the right cut height and everything and see if we can get a little bit cleaner of a cut foreign [Music] all right as you guys can see I'm having some issues getting this thing to cut right so you can see like that one and didn't even cut the hole it didn't cut that hole and it's just very very sloppy it's tapered the uh the torch height is too high and what I was doing was I was cutting and then I'd pause this the cut and get feeler gauges out and measure the distance between the torch and the metal is I have it set at 60 thousands which that's right where it should be but I was cutting out like a hundred thousand so it was way too high and I went down in the post processor where you actually set that height and I've took I've taken out spring back I have dropped that down to uh ten thousands and it's still cutting at like seventy thousand so something's going on there's a few things you can do in Fire Control with the torch height control so right here you can see it you can either do this it's cutting on smart right now you can switch it to Domino which at you actually set your own voltages in that field so the voltage is actually it senses the voltage and it keeps it at a certain volt while it's cutting but in order to do that we need to get the right volts so what we're going to do is unplug this height control so that this motor doesn't move at all and we're going to drop it down to where it's 60 000 and we're gonna do like a 9 or a 10 inch cut and see if that if that cut is good then while it's cutting we're going to be watching the voltage in here it shows the live voltage we're going to take that voltage plug it into the nominal voltage so it holds that voltage throughout the entire cut and I think that's going to help so let's do that real quick and try that if that doesn't work we got other issues something to do with maybe the torch height control I'm not sure but let's see if we can figure this out foreign guys we got our torch at right at 60 000 clearance between the torch and the metal I got this unplugged so that is not going to move up or down that motor is staying right where it should be now Fire Control has this straight line uh straight cut right here so I got that set up for the y axis right here nine inches 80 inches per minute piercile 8.7 seconds so we got that generated now we're just going to cut it and we're going to watch this live voltage and if that cut turns out good we're going to take that live voltage going here into the nominal and just throw that right into nominal so we were right about 80 volts so we're just going to go into settings in this nominal voltage we're gonna put 80 right there and save that so now now we're going to be this machine is going to be trying to keep that torch at the right height so that's it's sensing 80 volts through it so let's see if that works one other thing I'm having an issue with it kind of did it just a little bit not even on the full cusp just in sections of the cuts I did it once over here where it's like super Jagged I don't know if you can see I can see right right there where it's not straight so I think something might be binding up a little bit so I'm gonna go through the whole table and make sure everything is moving smooth and free something with these bearings maybe is dragon or maybe it's something to do with these rails I'm not sure I'm gonna go through everything and see if I can figure out what is going on I finally found the problem guys I did another cut out here and you can see how Jagged it is I did another cut right here and you can see it did kind of same thing it didn't even cut through most of it and I just did The Cut Above it and that thing is freaking perfectly clean I haven't looked at the bottom side of it what I did is I swapped out the tip so I bought a few different sizes I had a 0.9 tip I put a 1.0 but I had a 0.9 and uh there it is right there you can see pretty nasty and I've done just those cuts you guys saw pretty nasty right there the electrode was burnt a little Focus you can see the electrodes kind of burnt right there too I think I just overheated this tip this is good for 30 to 40 amps I'm running at 40 amps so I think I just ruined the tip so with a 1.0 tip in there this thing Cuts Like New so I'm gonna grab this file again I'm gonna run another one of these and see what it does with a bigger size tip that's not blown out all right we got this part back in here let's go through and let a rip see what it does [Music] you can see when the part drops in sure kind of splashes off the side of the table but I think we got a lot closer now look at that we actually got a straight cut uh dross on the back side actually that's really clean there's a little bit around these holes oh that just popped right off can't complain with that that one oh it popped right off too that pierce right there is a little dirty but all in all that is actually really clean and it's Square before on these ones you can see it's pretty angled of a cut because it's too high and I guess that uh that nozzle or that tip was all messed up so with that being said I think that fixed our issue all right I did some more testing with different uh speeds and everything I went from like 120 all the way down to 70. I don't notice a huge difference you can see they all got a decent amount of dross I don't know what could what else could be causing that besides speed this one here you can see I just I scraped it off and it came off really easy so it's not a huge deal having this stuff I mean I'd like to be able to cut it a little bit cleaner but it doesn't it's easy to come off so not a huge deal but all in all I'm digging it I like it we'll get it we'll get it dialed in one of these days well you can see we still got a little bit of taper so that line in the center right there is definitely wider on the top side on the back side definitely a little bit narrower so we're still cutting a little bit of a taper into it well guys I'm gonna wrap this up here we are cut budding I am happy I still got a lot to figure out with that little bit of a taper we still have and a little bit of dross we still have I think I can get a better so I'm gonna do some messing around the next video we got to build a bunch of stuff out with this machine for this machine so I'm excited I just wanted to get this thing done I wanted to get it together and cutting in this video and we did it we are cutting I couldn't be more excited to get this thing done and cutting so like I said next video I want to build a whole bottom shelf for it I want to build a mount for the plasma cutter I want to build a little shield for the torch because the water kind of splashes up and it can actually short that switch out so I want to build a couple splash guards we got some fun stuff to do so don't miss the next video where we actually cut some stuff out we're going to use put this into the test and hopefully not mess anything up well that's it for this one guys I really hope you enjoyed it I hope you're excited as I am I have so many ideas on what I want to build I can't wait to get to work with this thing get this thing dialed in and start cutting a real part well that's a wrap guys we're really hope you enjoyed it I want you to go smash that Thumbs Up Button comment subscribe we'll see in the next one [Music]

Channel: Austin Niemela

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Length: 28min 7sec (1687 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 06 2023