It would be interesting if some sort of Miller representative was prepared to comment. Possibly a question better posed on the Miller forum I guess. Regards Ralph I would also like to have the tech who reset the "gap" on a dynasty to come on here and tell us where that is as well and what...

I think its just a miller thing. I previously had a 200sd and I currently have a 350 and they both do what your explaining. What I found helps is if before you hit the pedal you actually touch or even a light scratch with the tungsten where you want your arc to start then pull it away and hit the p...

Where did you source those diamond wheels from.
Thanks.

Apparently it is a secret.

Some new toys came in. wooohoooo. I want to thank Jim Colt at Hypertherm for his help on this purchase. The consumables and the machine, and torch. Reading the manual now.

That Keith Fenner guy has a lot of videos on Youtube, some where he pre drills thick plate. Yes Keith has a modified plasma cam table set up. I got his idea to indicate the tracks when he had a bent part. My tracks are less than 3 thous in 8 feet. Pretty good in my book. I made a quick indicator ho...

Ok this has been buggin me for the last few hours now. CNC plasma is great but why not step it up and go water jet? Been looking for a pump that will work but havent had any luck. the way i look at it is go big or go home. A lot of money I guess. I never looked into a waterjet machine. I know all t...

More done this weekend between umteen million projects. I got some castors and made some plate with a 1/2" bolt welded to the plate. This allowed me to screw them into the bottom of the legs. It rolls nice. The castors are rated a 330Lbs each. I am going to later plasma cut out some castor moun...

I find that the noise of the cooler is more pleasant than people dropping metal or trying to talk to me while I am welding. I guess it mostly depends on what size facility you are working in, but I find the sound of the square wave or the inverter to be much worse on AC, and the cooler helps mask t...

To see the videos go to youtube and search Tjsnordic
There are many vids there on the TIG cooler conversion. I did not want to post them all here.

Hope this helps others wanting to do this.

T.J.

Ok. I should have done this a long time ago. My Hobart/Bernard TIG cooler has a Oberdorger pump which has strright cut gears and makes tons of noise. You can see how loud it is in the videos. I even rebuilt the oberdorfer last year which was a total wast of a lot of money. I put new gears, bushings ...

One piece designs are more ridged especially if you plan to use a water table, the whole thing may just warp to conform to the floor it is sitting on, then add several hundred pounds or material to cut(depending on what you are doing of course). So a 6 - 8 leg design would be primarily (although yo...

All those mementary switches you guys list sure are bulkey to say the least, and the button is really not where I would want it. I am making a momentary torch control using a very small button that are used on circut boards I got from my Father in law who is an EE. I am going to make some sort of mo...

With the price of a Hyperthern PM105 my whole set up comes very close to $8800.00. I have an excel spread sheet that I keep track of every single item on this build. So I figured in some misc. costs and figure about 10k, by the time I am done. I did scope out some of them listed on the above links, ...

Good stuff. Keith fenner on you tube has videos of his plasma setup, which looks home/shop made. The torch is a hand one hose clamped on to the cutting carriage. Keith Fenner's is actually a PlasmaCam(tm) set up where he modified it with his touches, venting system, breakaway torch..etc. I got my 4...

Made upright for the water table because there could be a lot of weight on this thing. Fully welded them in today. I had to use the creaper and do some overhead welding because I did not feel like tipping this thing on its side. It is getting real heavy.I am also going to make some diagonal bracing ...

weldin mike 27 wrote:Is that good or bad? (sorry)

LOL. Well considering some particular human hairs are about the same I would say that is great for a striaght cut.

So I made a little holder to hold a magnetic indicator to check the runout of the track. I got .003" in almost 8 feet and that is not even fully bolted down. See pic.

Made some bases for the legs. These will accommodate the machine feet I am getting from McMaster. This allows a strong base as well as leveling that machine. Made some plates up and welded nuts to the back side. These nut are called center locking. They are deformed a little in the center to allow t...

Back on track. Got the crossmembers done. Even with a messed up thumb I was able to fully weld all the crossmemebers for the water tray supports.

Ok. Started building my CNC plasma table. I am building this on my spare time on what time I have, esp. with a 2 year old girl and one more on the way (boy). I figure this may take till at least next spring to be complete $$. Ok got the gantry kit and making the table. http://www.tjsperformance.com/...

Hi from Fairfield CT. Have a complete home shop. Lathe, Bpt, plasma, band saws, Dynasty 300DX, HTP 240 MIG, converted Hyd. tubing bender, etc. Made and repaired some strange stuff for people. Currently building a 4'x8' CNC Plasma table.
T.J.