How My Plasma Cutter Saved Me SO MUCH Time
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- čas přidán 9. 06. 2022
- This week we wanted to share a simple but clever "life hack" (as lame as that term may be these days) that saved us so much time! Tay and Wyatt have a client who needs 35 picnic tables built for a Scout camp. Each one of those tables needs to have 22 holes drilled through the metal for places to screw in the wooden seats and tabletops. That means a total of 770 screw sized holes need to be made...
Now that's a lot of time and effort that needs to put towards simply drilling holes and making sure they're the correct distance from each other. Rather than spend 16+ hours doing that the boys decided to create a jig and make a program for the plasma cutter! That way the CNC Plasma can quickly and cleanly cut perfect holes in a fraction of the time. This is just one of many uses for an awesome machine like this!
Those of you who have plasma tables of your own, have you tried anything like this? What are your plasma shortcuts? Let us know in the comments below!
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Add a G00 command with the X and y coordinates to move the gantry out of the way automatically after the last line of G code in the program.
Do you know if there’s a way to do this in sheetcam? I have a Langmuir crossfire pro and it annoys me that the torch doesn’t zero itself after cutting
Great timesaver! Of course, when I try stuff like this, I'll cut the 760 holes then find out they're off by an inch.
It as fun to see you two A-holes figure out the best way to make 770 holes :D Keep up the good work, boys!
Something we had on the job site was a hydraulic hole punch machine. This was a huge time saver. We had to make long tray runs made from flat bar. It made perfect 1/4" holes for bolts. Worked so well Apprentice could do it. Ha Ha.
Great idea multi purposing that table. Clever!
Nice job fellas!
Just finished binge watching your channel and I have to how much I am impressed with the quality of the build. The transformation is amazing. I am so looking forward to the next installment. If I can make a suggestion, I was thinking about the previous owner and the medical components they produced and put together a wall hanging using the components. I remember you mentioning making a frame using the prosthetics to border images of the components they produce. Here's to your new business premises. Good luck and stay safe. J.
Fantastic video and what a great time saver that was excellent thinking and all ways amazes me what you can do. Fantastic fab skills 👍👍
CNC is made for mass production and complex parts.
And you can put in a bit of g code to move it out of the way when it is done to help with the speed.
I use the same technique on my Sidekick 8 (which we purchased partially based on your positive review). Tip on the cycle start, you can use the “tab” key to open recent jobs and the last job will be at the top, just hit enter. Saves a few clicks which add up over several hundred cycles. 👍🏻
So happy to see a new video Tay and the gang. It's always good to see a new video boys. Very cool project this week. Very nice video explaining this and showing how you all completed it. Can't wait to see more videos soon. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friends. Forge On. Fab On. Weld On. Keep Making. God bless.
Just got my (cheap) starter 40 amp plasma cutter in today, grabbing some steel tomorrow and start building my table.
Not going to be a big machine but good enough for starting out for the products I am going to make.
Nice great design!
Take this further an manually edit the program to move over, pause, and then hit enter to start again. Saves enormous amounts of time at the computer
Great use of the table. That being said.....Wouldn't be an awful idea to look into getting an ironworker though. Pirana's are great machines.
Oh man… we’ve got a hillacme 40 ton iron worker, can’t wait to get it up and running… but it’s 3 phase… and we can’t get 3 phase out to where shop is… sooo that happening slowed down till we figure out how to get it working without 3 phase. But I know that thing is gonna come in friggin handy. I mean, if I remember right, it says it’ll punch 1.5” dunno why we’d even have any 1.5” but hell just knowing you can do something is rather comforting I suppose hahaha.
Love the video. I just received my sidekick 8 from Shopsabre the other day. It would be awesome if you could do a video on designing in Fusion 360.
If you move the gantry after the cuts are done to a spot out of the way and add those X,Y to your "Finish" box in settings the gantry will automatically move to that spot after each set is done... just fyi for future jobs. Saves walking over to the controller and back after each set, one less set of steps for efficiency..
Handy technique. The place I started working at a few months ago has a combination hole punch/sheer machine. Obviously getting a big new tool for one job isn't practical but every time I punch holes on it I regret every hole I've ever drilled. You are limited on the size/shape of what will fit in the punch whereas on the cnc much more options.
Nice!! How did you bend the round stock?
Good job thinking outside the box. She cuts a pretty decent looking small hole.
I don’t have a plasma table or do mass production work but I do have a 65 ton piranha that would have been perfect for a job like that. Can cut the angle iron, cut the rod, and pop 60 perfect holes a minute
So on a Iron worker, do you need to mark hole locations before punching them? or is there another way you do it?
@@Darnic-Fab on an iron worker u do need to build a jig type which will help to place the workpiece at the right position to punch a hole. Actually this job can be faster and more clean holes with an iron worker. No dross nor tapered holes. Just an alternative I suggest
I am randomly working my way through the channel. On a job like this, did you consider cutting the entire part out on your ShopSabre and then having a shop with a press break form the parts?
Hey Tay,
I’ve been a Welder/ Fabricator/ Heavy Equipment Mechanic for 45ish years. I got lit up at work 3 yr. Ago by 460Volts(Bad Electrician, Terribly done job) after 3 yr. Rehab & 1-2 years left I’m about to head back into my retirement shop. Im wanting a great quality 4x8 plasma table that… here’s the part I’m afraid to ask you… could be capable of attaching other heads to cut other media’s? Do you know of such high end machines? Do you think I’m stupid for such a question? Im retired with a limited budget and limited mobility and pain tolerance, and I enjoy working with and building with all media. Someday maybe my ship full of money bags will come in so I can buy separate machines, but if I hold my breath I’ll pass out!
Wow, what a story! You're lucky to be alive! 480 is NO JOKE...but i dont have to tell you that. Im glad you're getting back at it and able to move and work agian. Not a stupid question at all! Actually, Shop Sabre makes cnc machines that can be outfitted with both a spindle for cnc routing and a plasma torch. Im not sure whats involved in switching between the two other than the obvious but with their killer customer support, im sure the answer isnt hard to find. Good luck mate! Thanks for reaching out - Tay
@@LiftArcStudios thanks Tay for the Reply. I’m on a very rough 4x4 road with huge boulders in my path, and broken parts along the way!
Very painful…
Hey Tay, did you have to set Z zero to make up for the difference in height or an offset? I’m still learning the ins and outs of this cool machine. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Great work and very creative bud.
I’m not Tay and I have a different plasma table, but I think if you zero your z on the angle iron, when the torch comes down, the IHS will sense the angle iron like it’s a flat sheet, touch off and go. I haven’t actually done this yet, but that’s how I imagine it works.
@@810Metalworks ya I would think so to. Like your saying that when they centered the torch head on the angle in the bottom left corner, essentially “home” for the project, and then the THC would sense the angle iron and automatically zero it out? Or am I way off.
Probs for using Windows
I have a 20kw fibre laser it can do 600 holes a minute 😎
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I'm not going to pretend to know which plasma table is as good or better than another whether the Lincoln ones are the we call them Logan's or Logan's or something like that I can't remember what the name of it is pro table is but I do know that that table right there is three times as expensive as I can get one of the Longmire or whatever the name of that table lugmire pro or whatever it's called cost is cuz I've looked at it and I mean it looks like a great table don't get me wrong and you do pay for what you get but I'd have to be in for me anyway I'd like to be doing some serious work to be paying for a $10,000 table compared to a table that I can get for half of that and for plasma cutting you know being what it is you know it's not like CNC meal workers some kind of machine like that where you need a $50,000 machine cuz you're cutting out airplane parts and things of that nature just got to be down to the thousands or even less I just don't see the extra cost I mean I'd love to have a table like that but I just don't see it unless like I said unless I had to work to pay for it I just don't say you putting in the extra money for that it's obvious that you got some kind of extra plenty of money cuz I wouldn't say plenty I don't know what you kind of money you got but let's face it you got to shop you pretty much gave away perfectly good machinery even though it was old I can give you that but just to get it out of the way where you could have made some money on it and then you got I don't know $100,000 worth of equipment in there or close to it at least 50,000 cuz I got a small shop which is probably a quarter size of yours and I got $50,000 in it myself you get down to all the little crap you know just grinding disc and spray paint and you know cleaning products grinding and grinders Sanders diss Sanders vacuum cleaner I mean you know drill bits it just gets on and on and on to the little parts it's like I told somebody I said it ain't the big parts is so bad yeah they cost something a lot of money but they only cost one time it's all a little bitty knick knack stuff that adds up over time that you just have to keep spending all the time with you know but but it's a great table I mean I love it I just can't justify buying it as of right now but if the Lord blesses maybe one day from my mouth to God's ear in Jesus name