I am a bit baffled. Why would you add milling capacity to a plasma table (other than to say you can do it)? My impression of a plasma table is a basic gantry with minimal mass. The only resistance in the system is your slides of whatever variation you use. By adding milling, even with a snall router, you are adding both mass and cutter resistance. This significantly increases the overall mass of the gantry and the size of the components (servos, drives, etc) required to operate.
Since your only looking to have a small milling area, why not just build the plasma machine, then use it to cut our parts for a smaller (and more robust) milling gantry. Per haps sized so that it will sit on or in the plasma table when they are not in use. B ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
