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I am using one of these to plug all of my electronics into on my TM system. I think everything is protected, and it would give me a couple minutes to shut everything down (because of the battery...

I also use WD40 on a shop rag to lightly coat the racks from rust. What I do when cutting pcs from flat bar and smaller pcs of left over plate or just cutting along the edges of a plate, is to place...

Hey, Thanks for this information, I just stumbled onto this post this morning and I too am printing it all out and putting it with my TM folder in the file cabinet just in case a motor needs changing...

!uckin a BenFab, that is a nice lookin setup. I KNOW the work and thinkin that went into what you've got there. I didn't take mine quite that far but am happy with it now. Great job and good picts....

Right On SteelArt, sure hope everything goes smooth for you, I built a TM 1 about 1 1/2 yrs ago and had fun doing so. I eventually upgraded the gantry to an aluminum extrusion for rigidity and I am...

I've been a metal fabricator for almost 30yrs Mike so the fabbing part of any table wasn't an issue for me, but getting into this brand new field of CNC plasma cutting led me to realize like...

Right On Pit Bull, glad that it seems to be getting worked out for you.
When I first started getting my table up and running this last year, I was having a problem with the height control getting...

I have also found plasmaspider and downloaded some of the dxf files that people have uploaded and am happy so far with what I've found.
Last week I stumbled onto Gary's E-bay site here,...

:banana:I finished painting things, and doing all of the adjustments today and ran everything up and down the table 10'. Burned a few parts with it and what a difference. With the new TD A-120 Plasma...

:banana:I finished painting things, and doing all of the adjustments today and ran everything up and down the table 10'. Burned a few parts with it and what a difference. It is now a really competent...

Good lookin casette, I'll bet that it will work really good. Here's what I ended up doing with mine, and boy it sure is smooth compared to the old cam followers. Best of luck. Blake

Well, last week I recieved the precision linear rail and two 25MM Hiwin blocks, and new pc. of 3030 aluminum for the new Gantry remodel. I had already cut the new 3/16" brackets for the remodel out...

Thanks for the reply's.
I have made a hard copy of the TM CAD 7.1 Guide, as well as the previous TM CAD Operations & User Guide, 187 pages dated 2006 to study. Both are helping me to learn the...

This question is more out of curiosity that anything. When I received my torchmate 1 kit last year, along with the CD's for the machine operating system and the CAD cd there was a little 5" x 7"...

Hi Steve,
Just in case you havn't heard of these folks, they bought all of Hiwins old inventory rail and Medium and Heavy Duty Blocks. The prices are really good ( when you compare them to other...

Hey CJ, hows the retrofit going, got any pictures yet. My rack showed up today from TorchMate, and then I got an E-mail notice that all my 8020 stuff along with the Hiwin linear bearings shipped...

OOpppssssss it just showed up , sorry,

I just posted a new update to this and it went somewhere, but I don't see it here and don't know where it went, go figure. ?????

Hello Everyone, Well I figured that it was probably time to make myself sit down at the keyboard, and update what has happened with my TM 1 build. I recieved all the boxes of stuff from Torchmate in...

Thanks for that info Millman,
I was cruising Your build this week and saw at the end where you guys has found this integrated rail extrusion and I thought that it would probably be a really good...

Looks like you've got some good use out of that TorchMate 1 table. Over the last year I completed my TM 1 and am now getting it dialed in for IPM, Amp setting for different material sizes, and such....

Hi Serhey, I just got mine up and running this past 2 weeks. I started last Feb. but with work and all I didn't get the table done till June I think, then my plasma machine took a crap on me so I...

What kind of help are you looking for.
I am just getting up and running with my new 5' x 10' table and things are starting to come together for me. I have had very good luck with torchmate's...

Thanks for the info.

In some of the pictures on the net I see that a lot of the water tables seem to have some kind of colored solution in them, and look nice and clear. Is this something that helps to minimalize the...

I am about ready to put my 5'x6" by 12' long water table together and I am using 3/16" flat bar for my material slats, hope this helps. They will be supported on both sides of course and at 2 places...

Well I'm getting close now everyone. I now have the table set in place and all leveled up. I'm just waiting for the water pan to get broken up, and then it will get the angle and flat bars for...

Thanks for all the input everybody, I think the Hiwin's linear slides that Blackhollow installed really look like the ticket, and I will probably do that in the future but for right now I'm just gona...

Hello Everyone, I am finally into my TM 1 build. I got started last week in between work, and now wish I cold get a block of time, with some warm weather to bring it up to actuall running status....

You have done a great job on this build, with some very good pictures to help the rest of us who are, or might be building one of these things in the future. I just ordered my TM 1 kit from Josh...