Building a Fixture table

[mechanic416]

Well that’s not the way to mount it, that’s all I can say.

[nicaDd]

I bought this magnetic torch holderfrom Jeremy goheen. Works pretty good.

[Agent86]

I have rearranged the clamps so I can stay on the gray and have full travel. Thanks George. I wonder if there are any misfire issues that might be related to the location of the clamps(?).

[TomWS]

@mechanic416

I have only seen this on this post.

There have been plenty of examples on here. Small sampling starting with this one:

PRO Machine Torch Mount

A member recently asked about a machine torch mount for the PRO and I wanted to let you know we will be doing our best to offer these for sale in January. Still working on a price. The mount will accept machine torch body diameters between 1.25" and 1.75". For reference, 1.375" is the most common diameter for machine torches. There are also three seperate mounting holes for the top clamp so that the clamp to clamp distance can be adjusted for different machine torch lengths. See pic below! […

Machine Torch Mount

Hi guys, moved a few pics out of a comment thread over to here. These fit the supplied mount with you drilling one more hole to mount the second holder. Bored to fit most of the common machine torches in the 1-3/8" OD range. If you have a large amp version 1-3/4" OD body. I can probably bore to that as well. These are manual machined in my hobby shop not cnc, so tolerances are not at the .0004" of the F360 post process. Lol! 85$ shipped conus. Thanks. Steve. [20181006_130626] [1542321…

Big Thanks to Lil_Abners_Kustoms and Gamble Garage

Well, when Gamble Garage posted he had a few machine torches left for the RW45 I had to jump on that deal. Let me tell you, I do not regret one penny spent on this upgrade. Having your hand torch mounted to the machine with the supplied mount from Langmuir is great, but once you start cutting anything thicker than 1/8 you begin to find out if you truly have your torch square to the table. Well , I never could get it quite square because the weight of the torch usually dropped it a few degrees …

This one appears to have done it correctly: Magnetic machine torch holder

However, I have to agree with you George, we should start a new thread on this particular subject. Sorry @chowpay…

[Agent86]

Not that my opinion is any better than anyone else but I also think this issue is important enough to move to another thread so it is read by all! The machine torch being mounted in the wrong place could end up being a source of future and present problems and misfires(?).

[nicaDd]

that’s the one i got from Jeremy.

[chowpay]

@TomWS haha no problem whatever makes a net benefit I’m for it. The clamp is pretty lightly clamped on though so I wonder what the actual impact is. But either way good to do it right. Wouldnt be a big lift to make the change either I just need to build some risers anyways for cutting square tube

[mechanic416]

Like I said sorry to hijack your thread. And I liked your table.

[mechanic416]

Tom, you know if I would have seen those threads I would have said something.

[chowpay]

no worries at all this is good to know

[Lil_Abners_Kustoms]

I’ve only heard of folks damaging their torch through clamping it at the cup or on the lower portion only and not supporting it up top, which caused the torch head or the cup portion to become loose and disconnected internally. The clamping force is quite minimal actually and equally applies the load all around the tube. Running it since 2018 without a single issue on two different machines now.

Steve.

[Cletus]

[chowpay]

now that is pretty interesting. What did you do to convert it from the side mount to the bottom mount?.. Oh wait that is a original cross fire and a home made THC right?

[Cletus]

Yup, all homebrew! Was a very nice project indeed, albeit a few coffee saturated, sleepless nights

[timtiminy]

I imagine if you cut the table top submerged you’d have hardly any warping if any at all…

[chowpay]

yah I was thinking of making some 1.5" slats instead of the current 2" then I could submerge things. But I get why they run the slats higher than the edge of the water table. You couldn’t put oversized pieces on here if you didn’t. Also I was draining the water while I was doing this as it got pretty hot. Though I doubt hot enough to exhibit any kinda of warping behavior on 1/4".