Recent content by aggierailroad

You won't like the performance of a water based finish on a hard used top where you may get standing water. I used a catalyzed water based lacquer that we have used hundreds of times on table tops on a counter - it started failing within a few weeks. Maybe jupiter and venus weren't in phase. Who...

Just for grins now as we've both made our beds and will lie in them - but did you see the Brian Oltrogge Platform CNC? I've seen one converted to plasma. Worked great and fits the right size for garage shops. He's a pretty smart dude.

Kenny, I am using a subset of LinuxCNC called Plasmac. We have our own THC that we reckon is pretty stinking good as we use a PID controller to smooth the typical "bang bang" response most torches have. I'm definitely interested in hearing about what features you like and dislike about all the...

Love it, great work.

I got you, give me a week. Going to make an F clamp adapter and one for pipe clamps. This will hold pipe clamps if they have the wide pads. We use them for our short ones. F clamps work great though, but rev 2 will hold a lot.

My first was super complex and a "cheap" project took me a day to build. Second one was better. Then I realized you don't need all the extra **** and here we are. Thanks for looking. I updated the blueprint last night to have info about spacing them as well :)

THANK YOU! I was hoping the name wouldn't only make me chuckle. 3D printed would be neat. Could easily add a few other features.

Whipped these up after two shop moves and never being able to take my clamp rack with me as it never fits the new space. Holds 4 Bessey or Jet K clamps, or a bunch of smaller F body and we even keep our Harbor Freight panel clamps on there too (holds 5 which does drive me nuts it's not 6!) I've...

Thank you for your thoughts. Unfortunately, we're not in the same ball park compared to a Langmuir. No Z, no THC, and all the other problems you've mentioned. I am curious, based upon your purchase history and recommendations for improvements - you're almost at a "name-brand" table in terms of...

Lot easier to do this stuff to the router. Build it strong and heavy and the rest follows suit. We are down to shaving ounces off the gantry here to have 5G rapids. I've seen the 1200s come all over the place in terms of their linear rails and ball screws. Not saying Hiwin is the best, but most...

We just started buying milk from a local dairy that I worked on equipment at as a teenager. They got everything they needed to produce and package themselves. Pretty cool to get milk in a real glass bottle that has a refundable bottle. I love supporting the little guy here, even if it's a bit...

I'd have to agree, but in my research a LOT of the info out there for controls was built on logic for plasma. What I really mean by this is the motion trajectory planner stuff in software. So some folks said, hey, here's a computer that controls xyz, let's just stick a torch on there and cut...

Already have one :) 4x8, water cooled spindle and auto tool changer.

Well you called me out - I will admit it's a bad choice for a business to do a DIY table when you can get something pretty decent for $20k financed at $300/month! I took this on as a way to learn more about automation and motion control as our customers are asking for that in our prototyping...

OK OK OK - fair enough. Slow weekend for progress around here. Hopefully some good updates around the bend!