Excursion.

Today the Australian component :p of sincro design went on a little excursion to Apollo Steel based in Archerfield.  The Operations Manager gave us an awesome tour of the workshop and a demonstration of the whole plasma cutting process from design through to machine processing and post-processing.  I had designed some seat brackets and tow hooks for the Pony car, so it was a perfect opportunity to learn about the machine by processing these parts.  Here are a few iPhone snaps from the workshop that we were kindly allowed to take.

Although the plasma cutter itself also has a drill head that can drill holes while doing a cut job, it's more cost effective to drill after cutting using this baby.

Check that drill bit out.

Gas nozzles and shields etc; brass, copper and silver.

Sideways gas :p

This touchscreen is were the job is controlled from.  The screen uses infrared touch sensing so you can use it with dirty hands, cool.

This vid shows the first part of the process - etching.

Second part - cutting.

I think we were pushing the capability of the machine with fine detail in small text like this, but I kind of like the raw and rough look of this text.

The really small stuff is hardly legible but was worth a shot :)

Stay tuned, I'll get these parts painted up, fitted and upload some more snaps.

Brad