torchmate2 4x8 table to water table?

[strawn52]

how hard is it to make it a plasma table with the water bed for less dust? i just set one up at my high school and it is not the best idea with 15+ students all in the shop to have all of the dust in the air... so i just thought i would ask here!!!
Thanks
as well how is the up keep on these???

[strawn52]

can anyone help me with their thoughts?

[ward2699]

i dont know what you have now but can you just encase the slats that you have on the table now and add a drain some H2O with sodium nitrite and physum20 to it. im not sure if its toxic when heated but it seems everyone here on the forum uses it or a version of it. (plasma quench). it keeps the dust and debreeee down very well. mine is set up in the garage and i never have a problem with dust.

[strawn52]

okay for the plasma quench how deep should i make the pan to hold the water? and how high should the water go? to the top of the slats?
and what kind of ratios?

[strawn52]

i know that when you mix baking soda and water for electrolysis it creats hydrogen vapor and oxygen vapor=BOOM!!!so is this a bad idea or is the otorch only going to permit heat? then the water just evaporate? and no BOOM???

[Hworks]

You want the slats to be inside the pan so the water is about a 1/2 to 1-1/2" from the top. Maybe you can build a pan around the top of your table frame I'm not sure, water pan be an inch lower that your slats so if 4" slats make a 5" pan etc, slope the bottom slighty so water will drain slowly to one end leaving cut debris behind so you can clean out weekly without to much trouble. The drain should connect to a holding tank by hose or tube but don't insert a shutoff here. The holding tank then could be fed with regulated air with a shutoff to push water up to pan when needed. When done release air from tank and water will flow back through connecting tube to tank. As far as using rust inhibitor I would purchase a product rather than experimenting when working with students, my 2 cents! I can provide the name of the product I use which works well and comes from a company in Cleveland , just can't remember of the top of my head .
Andy.