I hope to make this setup as clean as possible.
I'm big on keeping my wires and cables under control. Pull up a rolling stool and I will be all set. The lid with the monitor will fold up into a vertical position with the help of some gas struts and it will have a slide out drawer / tray for the keyboard and mouse. The idea is to store this under the table and when I go to use it, slide it out from under the table. I looked at a bunch of other peoples photos of how they set up their electronics and almost settled on using a pre-built rolling tool cart but decided to go fully custom so that this unit would slide under the table when not in use and hold everything in one place.
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I have to fab up the slide out drawer that will hold the keyboard and mouse and install the gas strut shocks that will raise the lid that will hold the monitor. I made a little progress on the rolling cart that will hold my computer, plasma cutter and my Dragon Cut electronics box and an UPS system. I plan on welding in the drain bungs and plumbing my sump system this week finally. With the help of 5 friends I got the water table lifted into place in the plasma table base. If any one has tried a sump system like this before I would love to hear your thoughts.
I'm going to start working on a cart that will hold the plasma cutter, computer, and electronics controller unit. I have a small shop and have almost everything on wheels. It should only take about 5 psi to move the fluid up but we will see.Īt least the rack for the barrels is solid and fits perfect between and under the rails so that I can move it out for service and changes in the future. I really want to pressurize the barrels to move the fluid up the table and let it drain back but a little worried that the cap is going to pop off and I will loose it all on the floor. Still having a lot of different thought about how that's going to work. I fabricated up a cart / rack to hold the 55 gallon drums that will be my sump system for the table liquid. I got the stepper motors installed and the torch ran through the cable carriers and switched over to the mini machine torch and got rid of the large gear rack collar. I could not fit all of them here so the rest are on the build site: I have a few more things to build though before I'm cutting. If I was not doing the water pan I could throw some slats in the pre cut holders and hook up the electronics and be cutting. The water pan Should drop right in I hope!. The welds on the trolleys and the gantry's were all tig'ed. The bends were all uniform and no tool marks showed through the powder coat. The entire frame came powder coated blue.
That is really nice to be able to have a 4 x 8 table up and ready in that amount of time with only simple hand tools. Taking pictures and documenting the process slowed us down a bit. It was very easy to set up and with 2-3 three people could be completed in under 2 hours.
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The table is the iplasma series from Precision Plasma. One of the very nice things about getting a kit form table like we did is how easy it is to set up. It has been way too hot and humid to work lately. I put more photos on the build website than I could post here: Desert Fabworks CNC Plasma Build Yes the steel in the drawing is brand new, my steel supplier delivered some very rusty stock and they did not have enough. The slats slip in nice and easy but lock in once in place and I do not get any movement. Their design did not call for a center support rib but I added one and it made a big difference. I think this will workout ok but its the first time I have done this so we will see. I will fill the table 2.5 inches deep and have 1/2 gap between the fluid and the part being cut. I also opted to have the slats sit 1/2 below the rim of the pan. To make this work I added a 1/2 support to raise the slats up off the floor of the pan and help with fluid flow.
I opted for 2.5 in which was a quarter of the price. 3.5 inch flat stock is crazy expensive at almost $40 a stick and i needed 10 for the table. They specified 3.5 in 1/8 flat stock for the supports. I used 1.5 x 1.5 angle welded along the edge with 3/16 gaps. So I opted to use their alternate design. No one in my area could plasma cut a sheet over 4 x 8 nor could they bend a 120 bend on top of the 180 bend. Their plans included an integrated slat holder that was plasma cut in to the plate then a 120 degree bend used to form a lip. I went with 1/8 plate formed into a pan using their dimensions to fit the table. Precision Plasma the manufacture of the table provided plans for fabricating the water table. I did a bunch of work getting the water pan set.