DIY CNC Plasma Tube Notcher

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Note: Jump to 3:00 and 8:35 for cuts. • Recorded by Paula Strach. Huge thank you to Paula for recording this video! • This is a DIY CNC plasma tube notcher. It was built to notch 1 in steel tubes for our university motorsports FSAE electric race car. The maximum length of tube that can be notched is 4ft (1.2m). • Build using a modified C-Beam XLarge Linear Actuator from Openbuilds. Extending from the stock 1m travel distance to 1.5m, using RoverCNC C-BeamXL Aluminum Extrusion 40x80mm. • The CNC runs on Dynomotion KFlop motion controller. The plasma cutter used is an Everlast PowerPlasma 60S plasma cutter. The torch used with the plasma cutter is an IPT-60 blowback plasma torch. • There is a dry run each time a new cut sequence is loaded. Just to make sure the plasma cutter does not cut directly on top of the tube support roller bearings. • We cut almost the entire chassis tube in one session. You can see the pile of notch scrap next to the machine. • Steps recap to create G-code for the CNC plasma tube notcher: • 1. Tube chassis was modelled using Solidworks • 2. Each tube model is edited to be flatten and save as DXF file • 3. DXF file is then uploaded to Fusion360, using a simple modified 3-axis post-processor to generate G-code for CNC plasma cutting • #CNC #PlasmCutting #DIY #ChassisTube #TubeNotching

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