I work for a custom boat dock/boat lift manufacturer and we have decided to purchase a CNC plasma for processing some of our parts. I imagine our usage will average 1 to 2 hours per day over a year.
I have narrowed it down to practicalCNC and Torchmate. The quotes are basically all equipment minus PC.
One of the things we would like to do beside cut our flat plate parts which we now have to buy in bulk yearly, is to burn holes in 2"x6"x.188" rectangular tubing. These holes all have a pretty forgiving tolerance of +/- 1/16" for diameter and +/-1/8" for location.
We would like to be ably to get up to a 6" tall pc of tubing under the head. I am leaning towards the torchmate based the literature on their website, the rack mounted torch (6" of travel) , and what appears to be better technical support.
Currently all of the cutting here is either purchased or laid out by hand and cut by hand.
We are not looking for an incredibly "robust machine". Any ideas on different manufaturers or pros/cons of the two above are appreciated.
Thanks
Gerald Austin