Retrofit Services ESPRIT VIPER GAS Cutting

The Esprit Viper machine had an EDGE controller running CNC OXY Gas cutting. The controller had a variety of issues and the machine became unreliable.

CR PLASMA fitted a full retrofit to the machine updating the system with the following

  • New Gas Cutting Torch

  • New Gas Control Manifold

  • New Pipes and solenoids and all fittings

  • New Modern AC servo motors.

  • News Homing Sensors

  • New Cables

  • New Controller

The project kept

  • The cutting table

  • The main XY Gantry

  • Gearboxes racks and pinions on XY

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CR PLASMA Esprit Viper Retrofit for Full CNC Controlled Gas Cutting video thumbnail
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CR- PLASMA - 25mm Plates CNC Gas cut

The ESPRIT VIPER was bought back to life wth a CR PLASMA Retrofit. The machine is shown here cutting 25mm plate with the new gas cutting system

The machine was fully refitted with new gas managment system and CNC controller.

Machine is now back in daily production

60mm and 130mm plate

All you need are two bottles of Oxygen, 1 bottle of Propane and a three pin plug!

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Bevel Cutting

See below for some Bevel Cutting under CNC GAS control.

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CR PLASMA Retrofit - Cutting 60mm plate

The video and images here show the CR PLASMA retrofit of the Esprit Viper machine succesfully piercing and cutting 60mm plate to manufacture a large washer. the CR PLASMA system has a very easy to use gas cutting interface

  • Mangement of the preheat, pierce and cut heights

  • Managent of the prehead pressures and times

  • Management of dual stage Oxygen pierce moving from pierce to cut.

  • On the fly height management

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CNC OXY Cutting 40mm plate

See here for some large packers in 40mm plate cut on the CNC Gas cutting system as part of this retrofit solution.

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Using This Retrofit as a Project Reference

This page records work completed by CR PLASMA on ESPRIT VIPER GAS Cutting Retrofit. It is evidence of that project, not a fixed package for every machine. A U.S. retrofit starts with photographs, machine details, control and plasma information, required materials, and a review of service availability.