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[Thissideup]

going to pick up this attachment for my p cam in the new year. will make coping tubing for piperacks a breeze.

[Blackhorse]

that is a pretty sweet set-up, where does one get one of these - and cost?

[The Boss]

There's one of these available for our Torchmate table.  I've thought about getting it several times.  Not too sure how much it is though but it's pretty cool!

[Thissideup]

Blackhorse, on 20 December 2011 - 08:11 AM, said:

that is a pretty sweet set-up, where does one get one of these - and cost?

www.plasmacam.com the machine as about ten grand us, the tube cutting attachment another 2000. I would imagine that torchmates would cost a bit more with the chuck, pc just uses a belt that runs around the tube.

[danielo]

Nice, it's a great piece of kit.

[Twister]

hey that's pretty sweet.  Now if you could get it to bend it in the right spot as well.  We used to have an old machine that would do that if you inserted templates. It was pretty neat. You had to turn a crank by hand to rotate  the tube .  This is way cooler.

[fpsREX]

Thissideup, on 17 December 2011 - 08:05 PM, said:

going to pick up this attachment for my p cam in the new year. will make coping tubing for piperacks a breeze.

Did you ever pick one of these up? I am thinking about getting one for my machine.

Rex

[Thissideup]

fpsREX, on 05 June 2012 - 05:08 AM, said:

Did you ever pick one of these up? I am thinking about getting one for my machine.

Rex

not yet, the more I look at the torchmate unit the more i like it. problem with the plasma cam is the set up for each pipe, putting the belt around it, tightening it, ... would be a whole lot of work just to cut copes, Still chewing on it though.

[The Boss]

Can you use the Torchmate product with your plasma cam?

[Thissideup]

The Boss, on 06 July 2012 - 09:42 AM, said:

Can you use the Torchmate product with your plasma cam?

I dont think so, but I have a buddy, looks like Red Green, but is secretly an evil genious , took a bunch of old manual equipment and converted it to CNC, might see if he can work some magic for me so I can use a p cam motor to power a chuck maybe instead of wrapping a belt around.

[CBVince]

We just put a down payment on this bad boy! It's made by Amada Fom2RI. It can cut tubing of all shapes round,square,angle iron,c-channel, etc. and then also can do normal flat plate. I looked into the plasma ones and etc just couldn't do the things we wanted it to do. The high end ones could but there were still issues.  

[Twister]

_{That's pretty sick what do you need it for?}

[Twister]

stupid small print

[bogger44]

you can rig one up with a extra step motor on your lathe chuck unplug your x axis and plug that into your lathe chuck your y moves the length of your tube and the x rotates your tube there are kits you can get also

[Twister]

Huh I was thinking about setting up an indexing head on my mill with a stepper motor. Didn't think about the chuck