Quarter inch aluminum for the main body. 3/16 aluminum for the large rings and 1/8 inch aluminum for the small rings.
Cut all the aluminum at 65 amps. Straight book settings from hypertherm. It all cut very clean
Clean enough to assemble it straight off the table. But I did dress it out a bit before assembly.
Thats some nice work. Nice welds. Thats one area I need to improve is aluminum welding. Ive got a little lincoln 180 set up with a spool gun for welding in the cattle trailer and its a PITA. Got a buddy of mine who is an engineer at miller and is trying to get me to jump into a miller with a bernard push pull gun. I do a decent amount of work with .080 5052 and i usually just rivet. He thinks I can mig it with the bernard gun. Might be a winter project.
Thank you we try to make things nicely.
It’s good to have friends pushing you in the right direction. We use a Miller 255 it seems to work well. I have another spoolgun for my Miller passport plus but haven t used it since the 255 showed up. Here’s a link to a toolbox welding cart we made for the 255.
Ironically it was all tig welded.
Here is another project. Ended up make making some curtin rod hangers and rod for the wife from refrigeration line offcuts. No electricity or money was used while making these parts.
Anyone ever use a router to square up a plasma cut edge? Got a project coming up that needs a perfect square parallel edge out of 1/2. Now, my 1/2 is a really nice cut. But I’d like this to be as close to a machine edge as possible without having to hire it lasered. Its for a tool holder on my press brake.
I did once and it worked fair at best and Most of that may been I just used a carbide bit made for wood. I also could not adjust speed of router.
Google has alot of discussions on this topic
Here’s a company in my little town
That’s cool. Vermeer is fairly local to me. About an hour away. I run a vermeer baler and a cpx9000 bale processor. Used to run a deere, but vermeer is champion with balers. Theyre huge in the mining industry I guess too.
Thats cool… I wasn’t sure if when I opened that it would be a drill or a drill. I was pretty sure it would be a drill… glad I was right.
Sorry… for the little bit of farmer “humor” there. 
A 75" diameter table A customer commisioned me to come up with design and make the base. The bottom is 1/2" steel plate 36" diameter the legs are 5x5" 1/8 square tube. The top to support the granite is 3/16 plate that’s help on with CD welded studs to allow removal once granite is anchored to it. Chrome powder coated with color changing LED’s with usb power bank and remote.
Nice job! What do you think it weighed before granite?
So was the thought of using chrome powder to reflect the lighting?
That is awesome looking.
I was around 425 lbs. Customer wanted chrome. the lights I suggested after it was done. The table is so big it hid the base, the lights draw attention to it. The customer entertains guest quite often, so it needed something.
Are you talking nesting in fusion that you have to pay for?
I will use the arrange feature in Fusion depending on the parts.
You required a subscription to Fusion to use arrange , It is not available for hobbyists.
I have a paid subscription for Fusion. I wound up using the free trial for nesting. It sucks. Did it myself.
Have you ever tried deep nest.
I had the paid version and besting was not included it’s was another subscription that was more $ then the fusion subscription.
You and I talked about it a year or so ago
Nesting is different then arrange correct?
I tried deep nest and could not get it work.
I will have to watch the video
