Go to Post Pizza tastes best after a few long hours of robot building. - Max Lobovsky [more]
Home
Go Back   Chief Delphi > Technical > Technical Discussion
CD-Media   CD-Spy  
portal register members calendar search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read FAQ rules

 
Closed Thread
 
Thread Tools Rate Thread Display Modes
  #1   Spotlight this post!  
Unread 25-10-2006, 15:22
Madison's Avatar
Madison Madison is offline
Dancing through life...
FRC #0488 (Xbot)
Team Role: Engineer
 
Join Date: Jun 2001
Rookie Year: 1999
Location: Seattle, WA
Posts: 5,243
Madison has a reputation beyond reputeMadison has a reputation beyond reputeMadison has a reputation beyond reputeMadison has a reputation beyond reputeMadison has a reputation beyond reputeMadison has a reputation beyond reputeMadison has a reputation beyond reputeMadison has a reputation beyond reputeMadison has a reputation beyond reputeMadison has a reputation beyond reputeMadison has a reputation beyond repute
Making a plasma cutter go.

So, as some may recall, our lab recently acquired a plasma cutter. Mike, the 'owner' of the lab, doesn't have much time to play with it and so we're seeing really inconsistent results from the machine and so I thought I'd check with y'all and see if you or someone like you can help us to get the thing running reliably.

The cutter was ordered from DynaCNC, a company located not far from us in Seattle, but they've not been very helpful, as I understand things. It is controlled using a proprietary hardware interface, again as I understand, that itself is controlled by software called Mach 3 . We've been using SheetCAM to generate the GCode, but we also have MasterCAM 9.1 and X.

I don't have a specific question, I suppose, so I'm trying only to gather resources or knowledge about what we need to know to make this tool work for us. Among the issues we've run into are the exceptional amounts of dross that we often see while cutting parts. Mike's tried calibrating the machine differently for different metals, alloys and thicknesses, but we can't seem to get the machine to repeat good cutting performance later with those settings.

I'm poking around on cnczone.com, but if any of you fine folks have direct experience with tools of this sort, I'm asking politely to nag you to death until ours works
__________________
--Madison--

...down at the Ozdust!

Like a grand and miraculous spaceship, our planet has sailed through the universe of time. And for a brief moment, we have been among its many passengers.

Last edited by Madison : 25-10-2006 at 15:31.
  #2   Spotlight this post!  
Unread 08-11-2006, 16:34
Dick Linn's Avatar
Dick Linn Dick Linn is offline
Registered User
no team (Synergy)
 
Join Date: Jan 2003
Rookie Year: 2001
Location: Midlothian, VA
Posts: 679
Dick Linn has a reputation beyond reputeDick Linn has a reputation beyond reputeDick Linn has a reputation beyond reputeDick Linn has a reputation beyond reputeDick Linn has a reputation beyond reputeDick Linn has a reputation beyond reputeDick Linn has a reputation beyond reputeDick Linn has a reputation beyond reputeDick Linn has a reputation beyond reputeDick Linn has a reputation beyond reputeDick Linn has a reputation beyond repute
Send a message via AIM to Dick Linn
Re: Making a plasma cutter go.

Go to http://www.hobartwelders.com/mboard/ Sign up. Tell them who you are and ask your question. If they don't know, no one will. Tell them "USMCPOP" sent you
__________________
Richard Linn

Proud father of Marine LCpl. Karl R. Linn
Co-founder Team 975
KIA, Iraq 1/26/2005
Closed Thread


Thread Tools
Display Modes Rate This Thread
Rate This Thread:

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

vB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Forum Jump

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Making an Animation Jimbo5051 3D Animation and Competition 4 31-01-2006 21:05
Plasma Cutter M. Enns Technical Discussion 7 17-12-2005 21:49
pic: Sheet steel resting on CNC plasma cutter Jay H 237 Extra Discussion 3 11-01-2005 05:46
Image Discuss: Plasma Combustion Motor Teaser CD47-Bot Extra Discussion 5 14-02-2003 15:46


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 03:52.

The Chief Delphi Forums are sponsored by Innovation First International, Inc.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.6.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2017, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright © Chief Delphi