Using a plasma cutter produces metal dust and metal dust tends to get all over and is not exactly healthy to inhale. The solution for a CNC Plasma Cutter (in my case plasmacam) is to setup some type of exhaust system to vent the metal dust away / out of the garage / shop.
Jul 06
Jul 06
When I first got my plasmacam I wanted to only use a water table to control dust. I soon found out unless I built the water table perfectly attached to the plasmacam unit so that the water could touch the bottom of the steel plate I was cutting that this would not reduce enough of the metal dust.
Jun 06
I made some quick videos of my CNC Plasma Cutter (PlasmaCam) cutting some 18ga cold rolled mild steel. The video of the plasmacam in action was to show how effective ~5000cfm exhaust system is but it is very hard to see the dust being sucked down due to the bad lighting. I will have to make more plasmacam videos in the future.
Jun 03
Plasmacam is becoming a more popular term you read about on off-road forums and fabrication forums. It seems a lot of people are wanting to get into CNC Plasma Cutting. Most but not all of these people do not really fully understand the final price of the plasmacam machine and all the other requirements it has.
Apr 04
So the plasmacam is requiring me to spend some more money 
to get it to run safely, longer, and cleaner. (And so that I can make better cuts and live longer!)
Apr 02
Well I got my plasmacam all setup in the corner and dialed in. We ran diagnostics on it and made sure everything was working right and reading each other. The plasmacam diagnostics tool is great and makes quick work for checking connections and for fluid movement of the machine.
Mar 31
I’ve wanted a CNC Plasma Table for a while now (~6yrs) and had received the Plasma Cam introduction video/sales video and it looked like a great machine so I did some research on it and nothing became of it for many reasons.