Was seeing if anyone has converted their table to downdraft? I might run 1 or 2 parts per week and filling and emptying the water is a pain.
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Don’t drain it. When I had my pro I had a large piece of sheet metal with hems corners that fit over top of the whole water table for when it wasn’t in use.
It’s slowed down the evaporation quite a bit.
I might have only drained my pro 4 or 5 times in 3 years. Usually the only reason I would drain it is cuz it would be filled with metal and the weighed a thousand pounds.
Downdraft would probably be good too you would have to somehow stabilize the frame considering the pan is part of the frame.
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X2 on this. The pan acts as the diaphragm holding everything square.
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Could always bend up a 2-3 “straps” to span the Y-axis and bolt them to the front and back of the frame rails, such that they are in tension, and then the pan just rests atop them.
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If I was going to do this conversion I would square the table and then tack down a sheet of 1/8-in material in place of the pan. Then set up the crossfire pro with the torch set low in the holder to cut out a pattern in the sheet for the downdraft. If you’re really tricky you could tack the sheet to the bottom side of the tubing giving yourself some more space
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You have to make a frame for the downdraft setup anyway so that will take the place of the water pan. On a table that small it should be a simple setup.
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