"My Torchmate 1 kit is still working perfectly well.  I rebuilt the gantry using aluminium extrusion and drive it from both sides of the gantry with 2 x 264 oz in stepper motors.  I have built a very good downdraft fume extraction system which works extremely well as I cut mostly gal sheet for HVAC.  It looks and runs more like a much more expensive machine and has added a lot of value to my busness.  Keep up the good work!"

-Ronnie Franks, Bargara Australia

5'x10' Torchmate 1 Kit with Upgraded Gear Rack and Dual Drive Kit
Torchmate CAD Module
Torchmate Arc Voltage Torch Height Control Unit
Thermal Dynamics Cutmaster 81
Design2Fab Foreman Edition Sheetmetal Design Software

 

Take a moment to read about this customer's experience building a Torchmate 3 and working with our courteous and helpful staff...a great testiment as to how quickly our customers get up and running with a Torchmate CNC Cutting System.

"I am a new owner of a "Torchmate" and I just want to say THANK YOU very much for the suppport and help we have recieved.. Everytime I have called each person I have spoken to has been very helpful and a pleasure to speak too.  I have dealt with a "few" companies and never been as happy as to deal with the group from Torchmate.... i give you a 10 out of 10...           Thank you again , A happy new Owner...."

"You cant imagine how much I use the machine and the abuse it recieves.  Seldom do I get the chance to cut a clean full sheet of anything.. ususally it is big scrap items I convert to useable sheets.  You have probably not seen a table as flexible as mine. While other machines look beautiful on the showroom floor, they are useless in a third world country. Your machine on the other hand is easy to build around, repair and especially easy to understand. Clearly, it is the standard of CNC  tables in South America! Of the 7 CNC tables that I know of in Peru, the Torchmate is the only one I know of that works day in and day out 12 hours a day.  Downtime has never been more than 2 days. While all the other machines wait weeks for a factory man to come from China or Japan. Yes sir! the U.S.A. is the leader in this industry when it comes to machines that work in undesirable conditions."

- Skip Goebel, Sensible Steam Peru s.a.c.

Dick Roberts purchased a 4'x4' machine in 2007. With the small amount of space he has, the CNC machine is the perfect size to create his beautiful pieces of art. Dick built a room at his Florida home to house the Torchmate CNC machine, and an air-conditioned room off to the side where he can comfortably oversee his work as it is cut.

"I am combining cutting out images with my CNC and then making art with what I cut out.  Something I would like to point out is my pedestals (Gallery 1) that I designed and cut out with my CNC plasma cutting machine.  The silver one is my first one I made and I designed  everything in my computer and then cut it out.  It was just plain cold rolled 11 gauge steel when I finished cutting it out.  I then decided to make a design in it so I took my O/A cutting torch and cut designs in it.  It was a lot of work and took a long time to do it.  The next time I did one (the black one, with the palm tree and beach scene) I decided to make the design in the cut pedestal with the CNC.  I made everything in my CAD program.  It was so much easier and faster.  All I had to do was weld the sides and bottom together.  Everything else was done in the machine.  Another example was my copper leaf spray.  My first one I made was an exercise of learning to braze.  I cut all of the leaves out by hand using an aviation trimmer.  After I cut out all of the leaves I then took my brazing torch and burned the edges of the leaves to give them character.  It took about two days to get the leaves done before assembling them.  I thought there must be a faster way of doing it, so I scanned a leaf and made a dxf file and put it into my CNC machine and cut out the same amount of leaves.  The plasma gave it the burned edge character that I had on the other leaves, and the whole process took twenty minutes to do the same thing it took me two days to do before.  The copper leaf spray on my website is the one I cut out on the Torchmate CNC machine in twenty minutes.  Then I just brazed them onto my branches I made."

Wallaby Fabrication located in Australia has been building fertilization spreaders for 20 years. Find out what they have to say about their Torchmate CNC Plasma Cutter!

http://www.spreaders.com.au/index_files/Page395.htm