Plasma table build, first question....

[Davek0974]

Hmm, to save time and money I thought I'd ring R-Tech as they have been very helpful in the past. It seems my torch would not be good for CNC as it is a contact-start head and CNC really needs an HF Pilot arc. He said it "might" work but the arc may not always strike when told and that would waste the work-piece. Sounds like my project is not going far unless i sell my plasma and upgrade the unit which would blow most of my budget.

[Davek0974]

Thinking on some more, I could likely build the table first then upgrade my plasma later on to one with a pilot arc, that should work better.

next question is, can this be done without torch height control?

adding this seems to be very expensive and would blow all of my budget on that part alone, is there a manual height option that works?