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Welder/ Fab/ CAD Designer

I bought the proma compact thc from Poland.
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Wow I was expecting much more, I think the last one I priced out was I believe $1500.00 from torchmate.
 
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Finished building the pan for the water table, had to put a mid frame in to support the extra weight and as a bonus no leaks! ;)
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Looking not bad I take it you formed it with the mallet is there any plan to reinforce the bottom to encourage draining? I would think the drain should be in the middle of the pan that way it could be pulled down creating the drainage grade, the one on it now I'd use for filling.
 
Tom O said:
Looking not bad I take it you formed it with the mallet is there any plan to reinforce the bottom to encourage draining? I would think the drain should be in the middle of the pan that way it could be pulled down creating the drainage grade, the one on it now I'd use for filling.
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I adjusted the table so it's on a slight grade towards the drain, it works till the very end then all i did was dry up the rest with a towel
 
Well it all depends on how much it will be used 60" is quite large so there should be lots of flexing I'm thinking just a 48" box and pan kms had them on for 700.00 something anything larger could be bent at a shop. I'd like something capable of bending aluminum diamond plate there is lots of things to build then.
 
Looks great! It should give you years of service. So was there any real problems with the build that you can pass on?
 
Not real major problems I ran into, just take your time and do your research, it went surprisingly smooth. I have to still get the THC working but I think that will be an easy fix, just changing the 50:1 arc voltage plug ins to the raw arc voltage plug ins. Here are some cuts that I have done so far.
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That was my test cut, didn't expect it to turn out so good
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Awesome! Wow! I'm very encouraged with my project now. Id love to come see it work Kris. How's your weekend looking?
 
Your parts look really nice Kris. Couple questions:
- what Cad program are you using for the outlines & what is a typical file format?
- I'm not that familiar with the cutting head, but does it do ferrous & non-ferrous equally well?
- do the cut edges have any bevel like water jets or does it just relatively straight through & mostly perpendicular?
- are the cut edges 'hardened' like I hear is an issue with laser? (not sure hardened is right word, maybe its slag or something associated with high temp)
 
I have similar questions... Especially about the cad and cam tools procedures. I've written some gcode by hand, it's simple enough for geometric shapes. But stuff like those flowers and trees would be a lot of trouble. So software to the rescue - but what. ? 360 fusion looks very capable but a lot
Of learning. Sketchup is great but the conversion to cam seems to have poor options. What else?
 
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