Home Made CNC Plasma Cutter

I thought I'd make a quick video about the Arduino based CNC Plasma cutter that I made in the farm workshop.
EM interference was a major issue however, to overcome this I;
Used shielded wiring
Installed a stainless steel water bed
Put ferrite magnets everywhere
Earthed everything I could
Major parts include;
Arduino UNO
CNC shield V3
1.9Nm Nema 23 Stepper motors (2.8A)
24V Power supply
DM542T Stepper driver
HIWIN HGH15 linear rail (A must have item for an accurate system in my opinion)
5V 1 channel Relay Module with Optocoupler (For on/off plasma arc)
"Tool Mate" Plasma clean from Hare and Forbes Machinery House
Software im using;
Arduino IDE for flashing the arduino
Fusion 360
Universal G-code sender
Post Processor: gist.github.com/michahump/8a2...

[@aidankilleen5889]

ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE. There are so many ways to do things without spending money, and they're very often equally if not more effective.

[@Joesdifferent]

I'm definitely interested because this is the final part of my project I've been working on for about 18 months now I need one of these tables desperately

[@jodde73]

Raw and simple, aussie style. Just works. Like it!

[@TheSmashingDoc1]

when its done, it looks very simple, but its crazy how much you have to plan and think to make it as simple as it can get.

[@smca7271]

first one I have seen with water cooling...awesome idea to solve major head ache of warping and torch height....well done

[@countryenduro4504]

This is the first (water cooled) plasma i have seen and I love it it seems to keep things straight. I have seen a bunch of water tables but not a water hose like a bandsaw love it

[@aznative_]

You made it look so simple. Good job putting it all together. Everything looks great.

[@richgrasty4348]

beauty. Thanks for no MUSIC too! Those cuts are music to my ears.

[@christophermurphy4230]

Nice! :) I'm currently building a dual purpose Plasma / Milling CNC machine 1600 x 800mm cutting area. From my previous experiments I have noticed that slow cutting speeds increases the amount of dross. Faster speeds reduces dross but if too fast it can have no dross but will cut a slight bevel and the cut will not be square. If this was so easy, everybody would be doing it! Excellent build.... Enjoyed watching video.

[@Georges-MILLION]

Très belle réalisation personnelle ! Félicitations pour ce travail ! Et merci pour le partage ! . Very nice personal achievement ! Congratulations for this job ! And thank you for sharing !

[@eloymartin8970]

I dedicate myself to build cnc equipment and the truth is I did not think it was possible to use arduino in a plasma with so much MS ... I would appreciate that you show in more detail the connections you made! good job buddy!

[@create80]

best DIY cnc vid I've seen, thanks !

[@joeestes8114]

Thats so awesome!! I absolutely love it! I just got started with aduino!

[@manny9639]

This is a great build Thank you for posting!

[@maxpower974]

Great job, I have the same plasma cutter from H&F, Arduino sitting around and a few stepper motors, so now I am keen to give it a crack.

[@flinston007]

Love it! I'd suggest changing cutting toot that it will be higher from the cutting surface and there will be no much water getting into rails

[@actorzone856]

when i first noticed you are one of us i knew it was going to work well, i suppose you are lucky as desk top computers were only being made when i left school so young people these days have a great advantage, we have a lot of excellent fabricators here in Aust but we don't seem to hear much in the commercial sales in engineering apart from boats and agriculture machinery.

[@Iamtherodlight1453.]

The water jet is pretty amazing so awesome thank you for sharing

[@batfrog84]

I like it..simply engineered is the best way. Like the water spraying on the metal as you go...i need to get mine finished

[@PALM311]

Great job! You have inspired me to make my own setup. Anybody that would give this video thumbs down has either,1failed miserably at trying to build one of these or 2 just plain and simple doesn't understand how technical this stuff is and how you got to have a pretty good mind to set this kind of a rig up. Oh..or 3 Jealous!

[@DontBlameDONTdoIT]

Crikey that's one of the simplest designs i have come across yet brilliant ;)

[@houstonfirefox]

Very nicely done! Impressive given the materials!

[@willpolicarpio141]

Well done mate, this is something I really like to do in the future. Great video

[@mariams8180]

Thank you so much for sharing this amazing experience !!!

[@dimehbonics9974]

Awesome job on the plasma cutter. 👍🏻👍🏻

[@dnc2633]

Your water cooled tip is absolutely genius. gotta add it to mine

[@bilalakram4581]

Ok

[@dgb5820]

Nothing in the world beats the genuine Australian accent well done mate

[@marshall5143]

great effort with your build mate, looks pretty handy

[@moochnhowzn]

Fantastic job , thanks heaps for the information. I will be building my own at some stage and your machine is a jem . Cheers

[@homemadetools]

Great work. We shared this video on our homemade tools forum this week 😎

[@AlbatrossDude]

The firsts words I didn't understand, but suddenly you started speaking english... but some words still don't sound! Great video by the way, I'm grateful!

[@SeanHodgins]

Amazing! Nice work. I have been considering building one myself.

[@stevechang6677]

Liked your accomplishment the plasma cnc table, you done a grand job, I am also an Aussie, old bloke trying to get my head around making a table at home.

[@dhumphris4717]

Thanks mate, good luck, they’re awesome projects, any questions let me know

[@eloymartin8970]

Amazing work! the cut is very good! keep it up, friend!

[@JohnDoe-rx3vn]

Thanks for the walkthrough. I wouldn't know what to do about the EM stuff otherwise

[@whistle3man]

Nice work. I like the coolant and torch holder too.

[@NefariousElasticity]

I like the rack-and-pinion drive concept. Most that I've seen are just ballscrews and/or belts. I'd be worried about corrosion/debris with how much coolant and slag chunks are gonna get thrown around from a plasma cutter, though.

[@stuarteastwood2450]

Good job champion. Good to see a young bloke having a crack.

[@CafeRacerGarage]

That’s so cool brother. Good to see another Aussie on KZbin

[@JunkWorkshop]

Nice and simple, great job buddy! Greatings from Sicily👉🏻

[@multihjalle]

Great work and a smooth running machine. i have every part home except for the stepperdriver , didn´t know you could use stepperdriver after the arduino shield . would be great if you could do a quick tour just on your electronic installation , at least i would like it . regards Peter

[@Andrew-zk4hk]

Great job dude. Really what one in my shed.

[@jimmyfavereau]

aWsome!!, very creative , nice shop too, love the electronics box / very clever in a pinch : ) thanks for sharing and God Bless !

[@diymyway6372]

Love this channel it’s inspired my to build a cnc plasma cutter from £179 plasma cutter and I will upload video soon

[@burknstock]

Awesome job Its sweet! Thanks a lot for posting the video!

[@bergarteric5713]

beautiful job !!! really top ... long life for you and thanks for the share

[@jimgordon3206]

Well done. I had a PlasmaCam. It was always hanging up on warped metal and ruining my projects. It also expensive. I ended up selling it. I hope the buyer has better luck with it than me.

[@m.s.l.7746]

The one at my shop is 16' x 40' & we've found it best to just fill up the basin to within an inch or less nominal that way the water catches all the particulate that would otherwise be in the air...also splashes up & cools the material being processed.

[@oneangrycanadian6205]

That would be fine except he doesn’t have a third axis for the head. If the metal gets to hot being that thin it will warp up and hit the torch. That’s why the water nets like that.

[@ramakrishnankalyanasundara1952]

Very nice. You are a motivation to others.

[@omskariyazmaraikayer913]

Simple and elegant design.

[@duncanmarks1590]

hi, very effective "home build", very impressive, and yes on these type of machines shielding and "proper" grounding is your best friend. bye Duncan

[@dgb5820]

Wow this looks 100 % awesome and looks like it might be affordable, really appreciate you sharing all the details well done

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[@ebrahimajam9299]

Awesome, subscribed all the way from South Africa

[@3dconceptsofutah757]

Cheers mate! Nice build!

[@kwastek]

Amazing job! Congrats!

[@user-ql1sm8dr1y]

После таких роликов всё больше убеждаюсь что Миша Задорнов был великим троллем

[@garyabc]

Great job! Thanks for posting.

[@GAMAZ7]

Awesome work, keep it up bro!

[@xConundrumx]

Neat, I would move the controller and electronics out from under the table just because of the coolant/water/plasmacutter mix potentially leaking onto the box. Also would find a way to protect the rails from watersplashes, for some reason they run better without rust ;). Still ... Damn nice job.

[@iangraham6730]

Nice, I like the water cooling, haven't seen that on many cnc plasmas 👍🏼

[@benwilson3535]

I'm planning to have a filled water trough, It looks like it might limit some of the overspray and maybe some of the dross on the back of the sheet.

[@iangraham6730]

Excellent stuff! Looking forward to seeing that 👌🏻 Hoping to lob one together myself during the summer, super handy machine to have around 👍🏼

[@gameshot586]

Nice one man, for emf shielding, it could be coming back down the wires from the stepper coils, (had this problem with dc motor). To fix it, maybe add a diode or decoupling capacitor close to arduino and/or motor control boards.

[@PeterKemp]

Great Job, very interesting

[@hulkgqnissanpatrol6121]

This is what my brother wants me to make for him, it looks and preforms very well! I think the slag is so built up on the underneath is because of how much coolant you have running....try buying a dc motor controller for that ebay pump! And play around with the flow rate... I subbed too.

[@WmSrite-pi8ck]

you could use a capacitance based system for Z height. Like on a digital caliper...put a metal wheel on the torch holder that can move freely up and down and then use the output from it to alter Z height. iGaging has a digital caliper that has a USB out port on it and you could just attach a little sealed bearing as the wheel so the height is constantly measured. kinda hard to explain in words but if you saw it on a napkin you'd understand in a half-second.

[@ManCrafting]

That’s pretty spectacular. Great job.

[@CristhianAlvaradoZuniga]

Great work!!!! congratulations!!

[@pedzisaimhlanga5097]

Great Job young man

[@shaneschuller2513]

Nice build Bro 👍

[@jothain]

Very nice machine. Thumb up for this.

[@aguilargutierrez4]

Great video 👍🏻 I will like to make one for a small business and help the my friends that right now is out of work

[@theboilershop1728]

Nice to see an ozie bloke doing a home made plasma cutter. It's all US based builds I've been following so far, which I do appreciate but our market is different we don't have acees to the same suppliers at reasonable cost. Anyone in Perth building or wanting to build similar projects? It would be great to meet and discuss build options..

[@drich5259]

great work bro

[@jonasbalanceamento]

Olá amigo, excelente trabalho,como você eliminou as interferência HF da tocha.

[@sondrew5426]

Great Work! want to make my own someday!

[@beautifulsmall]

made similar and feel for you, the slag is just about snap off or cold chisel but its hard. hope you got your settings right, the problem with homemade is its made for a purpose,i made my chipboard and rubber belt version to make a_n Unicorne windvane and made it . Thank you grbl, inkscape, fusion360.

[@gregstanley1075]

Awesome man. I want to make a cnc table for my everlast plasma cutter.

[@timandrew4515]

Nice work! Thanks for the tour. Going to check out that arduino cnc shield. Yours is the first diy CNC that I've seen that has water cooling. Does Z control compensate for warp maybe?

[@michaelpopelianski]

Great work mate!

[@user-ks5ff]

That was really good.

[@FBPrepping]

Dude, that´s a great rig. Congratulations. I´m an engineer and acknowledge building talent when I see it. Maybe you would like to protect your power cables for the motors with a proper plastic flexible conduit?

[@akroutsamo]

hi nice work , any future video on schematics and setup grbl ? and how to add the post processor , can i use it with artcam software thanks

[@rohandesigns]

Excellent work bro...

[@das250250]

good work ,excellent video

[@mystakilla]

Great job man!

[@SuperDanace]

Nice, very nice, congrats

[@nu77byte49]

Sweet id be keen on building one of these :)

[@user-xo9tj3lg1m]

Very good idea of ​​water cooling. But need height control THC.

[@laferj317]

That was impressive work👍

[@julijangabron4003]

Hey did you use mach program and arduino? Where do you bought servo motors? Have you got any part list

[@visitmychannel4141]

That's cool. I want to make one.

[@JulianMakes]

brilliant job! subbed

[@jkrinate2082]

Great job man.

[@TedeTVs]

Great work, and awesome accent!

[@MrDipakdd]

good job....dude....really great

[@sasharuysenaar3641]

A real beauty. nice work. Love the over center latch holding the torch on. have you cut stainless with it and if you have whats the slag like to clean off?

[@smca7271]

toriod suppressors on the wiring might help with the shielding

[@seremoslanoche]

Ey compa, genial laburo!!

[@porchmonkey0]

Nice job on that table bud, I’m wondering 1 year later how is it running and what changes you’ve made

[@pedrotorres9836]

Nice job. Thanks for mentioning the EMI problem. I am currently frustrated with the same. I have done the same approach to beat the emi except for the water table. Shielded cables, ground everything , steel box for Arduino. I guess I will think of water table made of steel. Thanks again.

[@RoyMeraki]

Did you managed to resolve the problem.. Please let me know

[@pedrotorres9836]

@@RoyMeraki yes I used ferrite magnets to cover the shielded wires from stepper motors going into metal box also wire from power box. At that location ferrite magnets going into the box. I also used a second metal box inside another ferrite magnets around the wire at location going into the box. Inside inner box Arduino controller. Lots of trial and error. The design of a microwave oven outlet and inner box helped me.

[@RoyMeraki]

@@pedrotorres9836 wow.. thanks you for help sir

[@SimspaceDIY]

Very nice job. Curious, have you tried running it without the water cooler? I'm wondering if it's cooling the metal too fast and creating increased slag?