Recommend crossfire pro maintenance?
I’m new to this and I’m a home gamer. This is a fun addition to my metal/ woodworking projects. I’m wondering what others are doing for maintenance. I’m worried about contaminants (think sawdust, dirt, etc) on the lead screws. I’m starting with split foam pipe insulation to cover them with when not in use. I use my table then drain it and put it away till next time so I’m working on my drain system next. Thinking of bar drains and pvc.
I wipe my rails down with a rag with wd40 before and after I use it and occasionally blow the screws with an airhose and wipe them down. The water in the table evaporates so I refill it after throwing a little 20 mule team borax in there for rust prevention.
I flood the table before use and drain it back to the reservoir after use, only takes a couple minutes. Saturday mornings, I go through all the machines in the shop I’ve used for the week. On the crossfire, I remove and clean the cutting tip, swirl ring, etc and clean with isopropyl alcohol and reinstall. Wipe the rails and lead-screws, etc with WD-40 and spray the leadscrews with CorrosionX. The dry water table gets cleaned and shop-vac’d. Reservoir gets topped up with H20 if needed. That’s it! about 15-minutes total, well spent.
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if your table is in the same area of the woodworking…be careful…wood dust is very bad for computers…then there is the black plasma cutting dust that gets into electric motors of woodworking equipment…
so I would throw a sheet over your plasma table to keep the dust of it…
I would consider putting small filter cloth on any open electric motor to keep the steel black powder dust from getting in…\
some may say I am over reacting…but an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure…
as for the Pro maintenance…regular cleaning with WD40 is great…get some electrical contact cleaner for the Z axis and spray it down once and a while…then I use sewing machine oil on the screws…it is super light and practically zero residue.
in a slow time after Christmas I actually dressed my rails to a clean shine…
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I did bring an old set of sheets into my shop just for the purpose of covering the table.
My table is on wheels and I move it to use it. I’m just a bit worried about the fact that the stepper motors stick out the back more than anything else. Thinking about making some guards that bolt to the rail plates.
steeper motors are sealed…just wipe them down from time to time
No I’m worried about breaking them off. If I (or my father in law who also uses my shop space) hits them with something. Or hits them when rolling the table around.
seems like you need to build and weld/bolt on some bumpercar rails…
Or get a new father in law! 
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