Plasma Table Build - Hertford, NC
 

Hello Everyone,
I received my plans today from Metal~Head. Here a little back ground on myself. I am a retired US Coast Guard helicopter mechanic and hobbyist; mechanic, woodworker, and metalworks. My ultimate goal is to build a Sky-bolt Bi-Plane, but I am building support equipment prior to that adventure (having a ton of fun in doing so). I have been planing to build a Plasma Table for over a year. I decided to build a small table-top CNC Router to verify the theory and operation of the electronics at a cheaper cost. That project has been a complete success even enlarging the the table top to a 3' X 6'. While building my small CNC router I came across the Mech Mate forum, Wow pretty cool tables going on here. I had already purchased a DIY set of plans from the WEB for the P-Table, but is not even close to the product and support that Mech Mate has. My target table size is 5'X5'. I am using the Geko 540 with Mach3 on my router table already. I am looking forward to read about the many projects here. Thanks in advance for the help........ Rick

Welcome and good luck with your build! Sounds like you have a good background, should be up and cutting in no time.
Mark

Welcome, looking forward to reading your adventures in steel and electrons

Welcome aboard !!!

Welcome! Have you decided on your THC yet?

Welcome.

No Ken I haven't planned for the Torch Height Controller (THC), do you have any suggestions?

There are so many choices on THC,
you can have Capacitive type which measures/detect the correct distance or the voltage control type which varies the distance with respect to the arc voltage.

Welcome