[mman1506]

We have a plasma cam(6x6?). You cannot use a water table for aluminium as it will collect poisonous gases released when plasma cutting that are heavier than air. We sometimes spray a little water on the collection table we have under it to prevent the dust through being blown into the air. Consumable consumption can change depending on what you're cutting and your operator but its not too bad.

As others has said I would recommend against getting a plasma cutter. It takes a lot of careful calibration to get mediocre results. It works ok for large low tolerance cut-outs and if you just make locating holes by piercing and drill them out you can get reasonable accuracy.

Most of the time are team skips the plasma cutter and uses a shear, band saw and drill press to do large pieces that cant fit on our CNC mill or a manual mill.