Long time follower second time poster! Anyway I thought I would show off my set up, nothing too special but it works! You can see I modified the torch holder arm to add another holder since the plasma I’m using is the Everlast 82i cnc and it has a massive torch head. So to hold it on there I needed a bit more grab than the stock one. Also I added some photos of some small clamps I milled up to hold down the work piece. Haven’t filled the tray with water yet but haven’t really needed to yet.
Nice setup, I’m considering purchasing the arcdroid and doing my research.
The table is important, yours looks great. can you share any information about its construction
Sure! It’s just a 2x2x1/4 frame, and then the slat holders are 1-1/4 aluminum that I slotted out to fit in 1x1/8 slats. Mounted those with a couple bolts on either side, you can see the oversized holes I drilled out to get a socket in there to mount them. We have a sheet metal place next door so I got them to bend me up a water tray that I siliconed and slide it in with a couple of pieces of 1-1/2 angle to hold it up. Then from there it was just mounting the droid on, so I machined some spacers to fit under the machine to raise it up to the level of the slats and also to level it out. Added some J bent 3/8’s hooks for cables and the table is ready to rock.
Oh yeah I also got the neighbours to cut me a piece of sheet metal that blocks the plasma machine off so it avoids getting sparks thrown at it. I think I’ll probably put some sort of sheet metal blocker for the droid as well.
Nice build. Do you have an idea how much $ in materials +/- $50? I’m trying to decide if I want to purchase a kit or make one from scratch. Weld tables has a pretty nice setup 24 x 36 for $575
Hey dano4911, It’s hard for me to say since I used a lot of scrap metal laying around our shop. But 575 seems like a pretty good deal to me to be honest. If anyone has any ideas on price points for tables feel free to chime in!
I bought the Klutch table from Northern Tool. 21”x33” table. $239, sometimes on sale $199. Not to bad. Individual parts aren’t particularly rugged but assembled it is pretty stout. Doesn’t require much floor space and fits the work envelope of the Droid.
I recently built my table and have x2 extention for my Arc Droid. I ordered the custom cable from my everlast 82i to the arcdroid and it was working before I decided to upgrade the torch to the CNC vertical torch vs. the Hand held torch and now it starts and pushes air and no plasma. I recently checked the continuity on the cable from back of the Everlast to Arc Droid and everything seems fine. Anyone have any Ideas why the CNC torch isn’t firing?
The Droid is doing its job if the air blast of the plasma is triggering.
Is the torch head properly assembled? Is the torch lead fully seated into the plasma unit? Did you remember to attach the ground to the material to be cut?
The Arc droid is working great, My question is the pin connection from the back of the Everlast 82i to the arc droid. I’m trying to troubleshoot the everlast as that seems to be the issue currently. I have it set to CNC and the pin connector appears to be in the right position from the whip. And Yes the material is grounded and the torch is brand new and appears to have everything set up correctly.
Since it all worked with the hand torch and the only thing you changed was swapping to a machine torch I’d try the hand torch again to see if that still works.
So I wired the old torch and it works great and the only thing I can think of is the pins that go from the torch to the everlast do not match and there is only a #2 pin and nothing on the #1 pin for the vertical CNC torch. so frustrating but everything works.
You say you wired up the old torch…. Are you doing more than just plugging in and screwing down the collar of the torch/lead set?
Since the plasma is getting triggered (air blast comes on) it still seems to me that the consumable stack isn’t right. Part of it has to blow back to initiate the arc. This may be stuck or simply not assembled properly.
Maybe try the consumable stack from the hand torch with the machine torch….
Not really familiar with your plasma cutter…. Are there any fault lights coming on after trying the cut? Does the air stay on for the duration of the cut portion (no arc happening) and shut off or does it shut off after the typical delay when the arc would normally stop?
