2+2+3 More Plasma builds, double the joy ! 3X2M and 2.5X1.5M cnc plasma build.

Hi,

I was thinking a little bit about how to solve the transatlantic problem's for Tom.

Is it possible to switch over to other interface's, or produce something local.
Almost everything can be connected to lcnc, that should not be the problem.
A plasma machine is a relatively easy setup.

There is a producer in Russia that contacted me in the past. They also produce plasma machines
and they produce also interface's. Russia is not far from Kosovo i guess.

Ethercat would be a professional solution. Selling price of machine's may go up. Ethercat is produced in Germany,
not extremely far from Kosovo.

If you have a adapter socket for a programmable chip, with break out board, for example 50 i-0. Something like a Rpi4.
Or maybe you need even 2 Rpi4's for one machine.
Or maybe a chip that uses Ethercat protocoll mounted on a break out board.

Using a Parport break out $5 is nothing to be ashamed off. It is usable for windows and linux. Cross platform and is usable for plasma machines.

I think you have too look for a second opinion.








 

Started building 6 more machinies, 3 for cutting plates with the following dimensions (so far):
1 @ 2X1.25M
1 @ 2X1.5M
1 @ 1.2X ??M
2 more for cutting round tube @ 3X0.3M and 3 or 6 by 0.5M, have not decided yet on the last one,
and one more for square tube also at 3 or 6X0.4M.
The one for square tube is causing me headaches thinking to pull that off as i would like it to have 5 axis so it can cut sections for trusses without the need for further work cleaning the prats.
So far i have cut the 150X150X4mm sections for the 3 plate cutting ones, today cut the 300X980X3mm plates to be bent at 90 degrees for legs, already cut the rails at 2.3m x4 and 1.4 x2 - supported round tube as usual at 25mm (still overkill), gathered almost everything required for 6 of Z axis as can be seen below:


Last 3 days spent learning FreeCAD and designing parts for the Z axis with floating switch to replace all the aluminium parts that take forever to measure, drill, tap, chamfer, clean, bolt together, test fit, dismantle, adjust-scrape-grind-redrill-retap .... and they are still heavy !
So cue in the 3D printers, been designing and testing and ... oh well have a look:




There is also a half full trash can, quite big, but does not look presentable to post here.
From scribbles to actual functioning parts took some doing and some testing and as usual the road to success was riddled with failures, while the strength tests proved way better than expected ! Watching someone testing 3D printing materials and showing graphs with MPa (Mega Pascals) is all nice and dandy (looking at you Stefan of CNC Kitchen fame on youtube) but does nothing to show how many times you can throw a 3D printed part against a wall till it breaks.
Public service announcement: Do not bother adjusting your monitor, the following picture is of a 3D printer upside down !

that's a lot of parts and it looks like someone got a 3D printer   3D printing is something i never got into but seems to be advancing as the years pass. i think i said i wished i had half you drive i think i would be happy with about 10%  

Here before this topic reaches 100k views .
Keep it up old man ,You are a beast!

machinedude wrote:

... and it looks like someone got a 3D printer  

I have 8 and building some more, not that i need that much but i am a hoarder !

machinedude wrote:

i think i said i wished i had half you drive i think i would be happy with about 10%

You would not, for sure. I avoid reality by keeping myself to busy !

shpatb wrote:

Here before this topic reaches 100k views .

Wait what ? When did that happen ?
Dang if i could do that on youtube, i would be set for life !
Nice,this was mild, now the storm approaches ....