How to choose the right table size - Tips and Tricks with Jim Colt

In this episode, Jim Colt, an industry veteran from Hypertherm, talks about different table sizes and which one is right for you. Visit www.maverickcnc.com/ for more information on all of our plasma cutting tables.
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Hi Jim Colt, here!
I just want to talk, one more subject about this Maverick CNC cutting table. One of the things is very important is to ensure that you are looking in the future when you are buying a CNC cutting table. Don’t buy, number one, don’t buy just based on price.
If you gonna keep one of these tables (I kept my last table in my shop for over sixteen years) you gonna keep for quite a while, saving a few dollars at the front end at the loss of some, at the purchase time with the loss of some performance capability or size capability something along that line isn’t worth it, you gonna have to live with that table for a long period of time. So, it’s kinda like buying one ton truck versus half ton truck, if you gonna use with the ton in the back, the half ton truck not gonna last very long. So same kind of thing here, this is the five-by-five table, I really, really could use on occasion a five by ten table and is not that much difference in price for the extra five feet to travel. All the expensive items: the motors, the drives, the computer, the software are exactly the same on five by ten table that they’re on five by five. So, keep that in mind. I have a serious limitation of space in my farm shop here, that’s why I am with a five-by-five table and I’m gonna have to suffer every once and a while. If I want to a cut something big, I may have to leave five feet of the sheet laying. You know, sticking out pass the table and then when I get part of the cutting down. I have to index it and move back in, that certainly can be done, but it’s not an easy task, not something I want to do on daily basis. And keep in mind that five by ten table, not really a big table in industry today, there are table fifty feet wide by three hundred feet long. So, think of a large shipyard, it’s still service something they has to do, big steel fabricating, those are pretty common size is in high end industrial machine. When you start, when you are looking at light industrial table like this MaverickCNC machine, these are typically gonna be in a smaller shop, it gonna handle played up, to about five by ten. So there, four by eight machines, five by five machine, there five by ten machine, and this even a lot of entry level, two by two, two by four, and four by four, CNC cutting table. If you really just add an entry level position, you’re cutting a part, one part a day or couple parts a day maybe two by two is what you want. If you gonna be, if you got a product, you’ve got some heavy product you want a do or some larger product, you might a look at something like the Maverick CNC, this is a great value for the money, based over time, is not one of the cheapest tables on the market, but it’s definitely a performer, we can see that already with this new installation, so the size of the table is critical.
Last but not least, same thing with plasma cutter, from the Hypertherm line, there’s a forty-five-amp plasma the Powermax forty-five XP, this the sixty-five amp, the eighty-five amp, the one hundred and five amp, and the one hundred and twenty-five-amp, these are air plasma lines beyond that you can go up to heigh hundred-amp plasma cutting machine. If you’ve got a cut some six inches stainless steel, you’re not gonna do on MaverickCNC table. So lot of choice is out there, let the expert help you make the right one. The expert at MaverickCNC can help you out with the correct choice for plasma cutting table size and getting your pricing that’s to a point where it makes sense, ok. Thank you very much!