10' x 5' Plasma table design

[Robin Hewitt]

Quite beautiful, you will do well

I looked at it and thought 10' x 5' so each inch of water in that tank weighs 250 lbs, hope he's cross bracing below it...

Then I misunderstood what I was looking at, thought you only had the water table under half the bed, smacked my forehead and said, "That is freakin' brilliant. Why didn't I think of that?" Then I realised you hadn't

In the real world I spend most of my time making relatively small things, I decided on an 8' x 4' table simply so I could pop a standard sheet on it.

Making small things means that by flipping the sheet I could do most of my cutting in one corner and that is where I need the water. No point in having water where I don't need it. Should I ever need the full bed length I simply accept that occasionally I will get dust.

Once I decided one corner was enough and I'd only stray out of it when I cut a long part, the slats outside my corner can suddenly have a much wider spacing because the part is long enough to span larger gaps or it would not be there.

[Kerryfisher]

Thanks Robin, some good points there about only using one end of the table, can see that happening to me quite easily, but wanted to be covered just in case, it has me thinking though maybe filling the tray up in two separate halves could be a good idea!
Might give that some more thought.

Nope no plans for cross bracing I'm afraid, just as you see there, can't see it going anywhere