JDE
I don’t have any drawings for the dies. I just measured the pan thickness and the drains. Scratched a couple notes on a box lid. But if (and that’s a sizeable if ) memory serves me, think the step was like 2x the drain flange thickness and the clearance between form edges was 3x the pan thickness. 1-7/8" pilot.
I would test/practice on a piece of scrap the same thickness as the pans. Key is not to form the step too aggressive and risk shearing the pan or over stressing it and get an oilcan affect. Too loose and you’re fighting spring back more and a less clean fit. Hope that helps some.
JDE, I was going to give you measurements from the dies, but my calipers have come up missing, they are usually next to my lathe, but sometimes my father uses them. If I find them before I ship the dies out, I will take measurements and send you.
So here is my current setup…hopefully it proves to work ok. now it’s not shown in this pictures but my bar drains have a piece of brown scratch pad working as a filter at the drain. I know alot of people are putting inline filters in the drain…but I’m using a sock filter down in my water tank. All I have left to do is get the hose to run from my sprayer tank, to the water table to re return the fluid. Anyone else using a Filter Bag? I guess if it doesn’t work I’ll try something else.
You have allot shorter tailpiece then what I have. What is that first fitting you are using? I cut my tail pipe down but It still drops 4-6” inches from the bottom of the table. I like your setup.
I’m using a tailpiece I’m using has threads in with an rubber gasket no floating nut to tighten. I cut mine down to about 2"s. The Tailpiece from Menards I’m using. I also used the tightest 90 degree
I spend a ridiculous amount of time at Menards every week and have never seen those. Very cool! Running 1-1/2" all the way back to tank, that thing will drain FAST. Well done.
How well does that pump work for you? Most I seen online didn’t get that well of a rating…but the pump I’m using takes forever to fill my table back up. Can drain it in seconds…but fill up takes awhile with my current pump so looking for pump idea’s.
@mnicolia I can’t say I’ve used it a lot, but it’s still alive. There are all kinds of warnings on running it dry that make the plastic/rubber? impeller bite the dust. I definitely had to play with spreading out the flow to not have it end up shooting out over my pan. I think they have ones with a brass impeller for ~50% more. Harbor Freight at its finest. Always a calculated gamble…
Why not just use pressurized air to push the fluid back up out of the storage tank? Obviously you already have air coming to the table for the plasma cutter so that part is easy. A simple regulator will allow you to “tune” how fast (and violently) the water will push back up through the drains.
@jazzato already got my shipping address a couple of days ago, so I think they should be arriving soon. My intention is to do a really fast turnaround on these. My table is about 1/2 way assembled at this point and the pans/drains are my next assembly step… so the timing is perfect
my tank isn’t one that can be pressurized easily…maybe if I ever get another tank, I have will think about doing a pressurized tank setup. I just used what I had available.
) memory serves me, think the step was like 2x the drain flange thickness and the clearance between form edges was 3x the pan thickness. 1-7/8" pilot.
Running 1-1/2" all the way back to tank, that thing will drain FAST. Well done.