The Less Glamorous Side of CNC Plasma Cutting

[@jimurrata6785]

Nice plasma table! Glad to see you take care of it. 👍 Because its a big investment and (hopefully) makes you money

[@sateshbhagoutie251]

Thank you. For your vlog. Further my undetstanding of this particular cnc 👍

[@mstrdonmyshrt4219]

We run 2 tables at my work ( Heavy Trailer Fabrication and Repair Shop) and we clean them every 2 months alternating, So once a month we're cleaning 1 of them. They see some pretty heavy usage, they both run an average of 6 hours a day, 5 days a week.

[@SchysCraftCo.]

tool cleaning an Maintenance are not always the fun part of being in the shop. its has to be completed every once in a wile. very well explained video this week Tay an the guys. cant wait to see more videos soon. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work Tay and the guys. weld on. fab on. keep making. god bless.

[@JFirn86Q]

You mentioned 33 to 1, so you were going to add less - but you should be adding more than 5 gallons. You want the ratio below 20 to 1 you said?

[@spaus65]

tip, use lanolin grease (sheep wool oil ) on your linear rails protects from water, and doesn't build up as badly as hydrocarbon-based lubricants.

[@tribum]

21:39 Looks like the cutting you "got to" after cleaning and leveling your table might be metal targets?? Great channel bro! Music is cool, and the 'splaining you do with humor makes your channel very enjoyable to watch! BTW... I'm over 50 so there are those of us who appreciate what you do and your super cool shop! Not complaining at all what you did with an old machine shop. My recently deceased uncle was a machinist for Raytheon back in the day and I know he would love your channel!!

[@fernandofigueiredo8417]

You’re awesome brother. Love your videos. Big thumbs up to your production team. They do a great job on keeping viewers engaged and entertained! Hope I can do a review of my table with the quality of yours! Keep up the great work!

[@californowoodfiredovens8736]

AMAZING CONTENT, VERY HELPFULL.

[@brucebaird6134]

I bet you could make the protective cover instead of purchasing it. Nice information, thanks

[@coltonkruse2313]

Man I gotta say I just like listening to you talk hahaha. Also this was a good video I haven't ever seen or thought about this process of cleaning out a plasma table.

[@joewhitney4097]

Great video, important topic. Thanks for sharing. Well done!

[@YoureNottheonlyonehere]

I love this Channel you Guys are so Funny and i love to watch youre Work keep goin and PLEASE never change

[@randyharris8669]

Instruction 1) throw instrictions out🤣👍 thanks for sharing this

[@davidhofman4341]

You would amazed how much steal partials go out the drain of your plasma table. That stuff gets like a rock in the bottom of sewer traps. Make a bucket with low inlet high outlet. Place magnets under or around the outside of the bucket.

[@1nvisible1]

*Yeah, mine has chunks. I pull the slats and powerwash them, then let the kids surf around on the concrete for five minutes, knocks any dross off them for free labor :-)*

[@brent1535ln]

Hey Lift Arc!!! Love the channel been watching for some time now! Have a table of my own was curious if you really like the sterlingcool cutting fluid???? Thinking I’m going to go with them based on your recommendation. Not really a fan of what I have now & Im due for a maintenance cleaning & water changing myself! Keep up the great work! Always looking forward to your videos!

[@clintgossett1879]

I'm not sure of no one caught this or if I'm wrong (happy to be wrong), but, if you're looking for 20:1 (water:adative) and a bucket of additive gives you 30:1...then you need more than one bucket of additive. 20:1 is a greater ratio of additive than 30:1.

[@Morrisonspouch]

Wrong I think… the additive is the ‘1’ in the 30 to 1

[@clintgossett1879]

@@Morrisonspouch I agree that the 1 is the additive.

[@Morrisonspouch]

Agh yeh I think you are right actually 😀

[@rosslawrence4628]

I caught that mistake too. 165 gallons at the max ratio of 10:1 would need 16.5 gallons of metal working fluid, or the minimum ratio of 20:1 would need 8.25 gallons. 5 gallons is too little.

[@itsnotlevel2]

Parts water to parts cutting fluid.... 0:0 ...... 30 is more diluted 20 is less diluted.

[@TayWhiteside]

This guy is so funny and smart!

[@bogartaspen]

Imagine coming across somebody I know from the Black Dog Salvage show! What a pleasant surprise!

[@howardhobgood6814]

Do you add Borax in your water ? makes the water cleaner

[@madisonian50]

Wouldn’t the water level serve as the level? Maybe it’s not one contiguous body of water due to the baffles?

[@patobanion]

Nice! I am just finishing up making my own CNC plasma table so these tips will certainly help. Since the top surface of the slats is very flat, could you not just use the water level itself to level the table?

[@WayneWerner]

Yeah, but it won't be quite as accurate

[@jimurrata6785]

I think it's 'How it's Made' that had the name welded out on the intro.

[@pswoodworks7007]

No link to vote in the contest???? Otherwise, outstanding video and presentation, as always.

[@LiftArcStudios]

Sorry about that! Here's a link and there's now one in the description :) diyhero.org/2022/tay-whiteside thanks for the heads up!

[@mikecurtis2585]

Very nice great video!!! Thanks 🙂🙏

[@LiftArcStudios]

Glad you liked it!

[@spevakdesigns]

I see tons of weird stuff in my table and on my slats, especially after cutting aluminum.

[@AZHOTROD84]

Did you say you recycle the contents of the table? Like slag or the letters?

[@jasonolson9348]

Haggard Slats is my new country musician name.

[@bricebertelsman7783]

Man I have a water table and it was ruining my shop with smoke I got an exhaust hood

[@makesbyryandean]

Borax all day long from Australia

[@brucebaird6134]

I am curious some Epoxy Primer etche into the metal for rust prevention and better bonding. I wonder if this would be good to do?

[@BrettFleming]

I wonder if someone makes a water filter system for these tables.

[@LiftArcStudios]

Thatd be interesting, something that filters the water but keeps the additive in it? hmmm

[@justhavingfun7375]

Did I hear you say there is antifreeze in the water table

[@bigrednick100]

Great video once again. However no link to vote.

[@LiftArcStudios]

Thank you for letting us know! We now have one in the description!

[@SixtyAte]

Yo the algorithm is jissing you all over my face. I’m okay with that.

[@ricks5984]

Pan could be leaning toward the drain to accommodate draining? It would be rather hard to totally drain if the pan was totally flat and level. Just sayin.

[@LiftArcStudios]

Honestly not a bad idea considering the "level-ness" of a cnc plasma cutter isnt that important, its more important that its flat i suppose. Thanks for watching! - Tay

[@dogcreek-customs5168]

The fab shop I started at back 10 some years ago, we got fined like 5 years into working there we thought the same thing it was non toxic and ran it out to the sewer drain and the city inspector came out or was called and the company got sited for it. That's least what I was told and a city official did show up but idk what was said and I was told when I clean out the table we have to run it outside the door and let it run through the stoned alley and never was allowed to run it right to the sewer again. lol

[@dogcreek-customs5168]

But we live in Ohio

[@tobiunter]

The waterpan won't rust throug. To rust the metal needs air (oxigen), underwater the table and other thinks won't rust.

[@tobiunter]

sorry for any mistakes, im from austia and my english isn't very good

[@LiftArcStudios]

Honestly, never thought about that but you're right! I guess it would only rust at the top surface of the water where the metal is exposed to the air?

[@tobiunter]

@@LiftArcStudios exactly

[@88tme]

Water has oxygen in it

[@robertsneddon731]

The plasma blasting into the water under the cut metal will introduce a lot of oxygen into the water. There may be some kind of paint or coating that can be applied to the bed during a maintenance cycle to protect it better than bare metal -- using marine-grade stainless would be best but the extra cost and weight penalty would be painful. Fabricating splash guards in-house to protect the side rails from cutting crud would be easy. I assume the Y-Z carriage has some sort of wipers on the linear bearings, cleaning and lubing them regularly will always help.

[@dogcreek-customs5168]

I use new cut off wheels to slice the dross off of my slats cheapest and fastest way I've found. lol

[@dogcreek-customs5168]

Ever flip your slats upsidedown?

[@alkolluekip]

👍👍👍👍

[@jeffmays3608]

Why not buy just a 1 inch ball valve. That 3 inch had to be expensive

[@k20Fritz]

well my brain didn't think about sh!t i saw another s!!t word

[@anthonycassidy3896]

just a minute, i think your maths is out - i think you have not put enough additive in 5 gallons to 160 gallons is indeed 33:1, you need to put in 8.25 or more gallons to get 20:1,10 gallons would be 16.5:1, not quite half way 10-20:1, but good enough.

[@Z-add]

Leaving it unleveled would have eventually bended the steel frame. That would have in turn caused your linear rails to bend and the machine to bind up.

[@thavvolf9157]

Judging by your breath it’s cold there, think if it was me I’d defer to warmer months if possible

[@neffk]

from what I read, aluminum can break down and produce hydrogen. If a bunch of hydrogen gets trapped under a sheet, it could be... exciting when you come back from lunch break.

[@SegoMan]

Your rust inhibitor is not working..

[@xiaoxiaoreed8012]

Yeh, drain out the NONE-toxic water 💦 and recycle the scrap metal dust..., 😂

[@EN_Tactical]

Comment.

[@itsnotlevel2]

And you could have saved yourself a decent amount of money by buying a 3/4 or 1-in ball valve because you reduce down to 3/4 it looks like versus a 3-in ball valve those are expensive brother.