Things Don't Always work out as you planned

[jthornton]

Here is a video of me cutting some parts on my plasma cutter and well you will have to see what I did wrong on my programming.

www.gnipsel.com/video/DashRamMount.wmv

JT

[Bob Denman]

missteaks... no!
mystecs,,, no!
misstakes..... no!

MISTAKES (yes!) are what we learn the most from!

I just don't know why I'm not a whole lot smarter...

[jthornton]

whatever it is you are cutting out they certainly look substantial.

Yes, that is 12 gauge steel so for a small part like that it is very strong. I should know better as long as I've been running my plasma table to go around the part I just cut to the starting point of the next part in case of a tip up. The plasma table is stepper driven so worst case the stepper stalls, in this case it just pushed the material over a bit.

Here is an earlier version of the same part hanging on the drying/storage rack.

Ram Mount 04.jpg

JT

[jthornton]

missteaks... no!
mystecs,,, no!
misstakes..... no!

MISTAKES (yes!) are what we learn the most from!

I just don't know why I'm not a whole lot smarter...

Miss Steaks, I saw her once in Dallas and wow!

JT

[bruiser]

Just a little programming error,

[spyderpoop]

it cut the piece out was that what it was to do so what wrong ??

[jthornton]

Just a little programming error,

Yea, PEBKAC strikes again...

JT

[jthornton]

it cut the piece out was that what it was to do so what wrong ??

I should have programmed the torch to go around the cut part in case of a tip up like it did. In this case it just pushed the material but could have stalled the stepper. Watch the last few seconds after the torch goes off and you will see it hit the tip up and push the stock.

JT

[Bob Denman]

..and that's when the pig pooed in the front yard...

[spyderpoop]

well if you say so your eyes are better then most people in the world cause I just see it cut it out and it dropped ?? but thanks anyway

[Mike_R]

What no Verify on your programming software