Who made the cantilevered entry level gantry?

[panozeng]

About a year ago there was a company offering a CNC plasma gantry on Ebay that utilized a cantilevered Y axis. They claimed it was the easiest one to load material into/onto due to having 3 sides clear. For some reason I cannot find it any more, and don't remember who made it. But, I would like to see pictures of one again as I am considering building a machine with a similar design. Can anyone help me out on this one?

Thank you,
Jason

[millman52]

I have seen several cantilever design machines manufactured by someone like ESAB. They were all of the optical tracer type machine. If designed similar to theirs one will take up twice the floor space as a gantry type machine. However I would think you could build a cantilever machine somewhat like the rough sketch below.

[panozeng]

Yes, I have seen some of those industrial ones as well, and they are huge! The one I remember seeing on ebay often was in the < $10k range (might have been closer to $5k) and was similar to your sketch. If I remember right it was right around 60" x 60" cutting area, and seems like it was mostly aluminum. I may be off on the time frame, though - it would have been 1 -2 years ago that I saw it.

Thank you,
Jason

[JerryFlyGuy]

I know one such machine was called a Ezloader but I hear they were crap. We just about purchased one for R&D but after talking to some other users realized it wasn't worth the time or money.

Fwiw

Jerry

[millman52]

The optical tracer design tables have a table the same size as the burning area. The table has to be the same size to use full size drawings. They are usually set up with about a 2' aisle between the tracer table & the burning table to allow room for the operator. You still have to build your own burning support table.

http://products.esabna.com/index.htm...tegory_id/3472

[blackhollowmfg]

Is this it?

http://cgi.ebay.com/CNC-4x8-PLASMA-C...QQcmdZViewItem

[JerryFlyGuy]

Thats sure looks like the one I saw.

Jerry

[panozeng]

You know, I am not sure if that is it or not now. I was thinking it was in the <$10k range, but maybe I'm just not remembering it right. I emailed the company with an inquiry about 2 weeks ago and got a read response, but never heard back from them.

I am thinking about building a machine somewhat along the same lines, and was hoping to get a bunch of close-up pictures of it. There are a few on thier website - http://www.pcsplasmacutting.com/. Actually, they seemed to have updated it when I went just now to get the link, not sure if all the pics are still there or not.

Thank you,
Jason

[panozeng]

Looks like the website is mainly a series of broken links.... At least all of the product links give errors...