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CNC Plasma Tables for Mining & Wear Parts
When a chute liner lets go, the clock starts. Replacement parts are two weeks out, the vendor’s cutting queue is full, and every idle hour on a crusher or loader costs more than the steel ever will. An Arclight CNC plasma table puts wear-part cutting inside your own maintenance shop: keep AR400 and AR500 plate on the rack, keep your liner patterns on file, and cut replacements the same shift the old part fails.
Arclight builds professional heavy-plate tables that run in mine-site maintenance shops, quarries, and heavy-equipment rebuild bays — machines specced for thick plate, powered by industrial Hypertherm plasma, and backed by support that answers the phone.
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Built for Shops Where Downtime Is Measured by the Minute
- Lifetime US-based support that follows the table — even if it changes hands
- Same-day parts shipping to keep a remote shop cutting
- 3-year motion warranty and a 30-day guarantee
- Digital torch height control (DTHC) standard on every table
Wear Parts Mining Shops Cut on an Arclight
If it bolts on and wears out, it can come off your own table. These are the parts mine-site and quarry shops run:
- Chute liners — store the pattern once, then recut it in AR400 or AR500 every time a liner wears through.
- Wear plates, skid plates, and hopper liners — flat AR-plate work, the bread and butter of a mining fab bay.
- Screen and grizzly plates — cut slotted and perforated patterns to your spec instead of waiting on a supplier.
- Bucket lip and side-shroud wear patterns — protect loader and excavator buckets with plate you cut this morning.
- Conveyor guards and crusher backing plates — structural and safety steel off the same machine.
- Hardfacing base blanks — cut the blank, hardface it in-house, and control the whole rebuild.
One honest note: plasma delivers clean, square-edge cuts on AR plate. Where a spec calls for weld-prep bevels, plan on a grinder pass after cutting — we’d rather tell you that now than let a brochure imply otherwise.
The Right Plasma Table for Mining Work
Mining work is thick-plate work, so start with the plasma source and build back from there. Every table below runs DTHC standard and carries the 3-year motion warranty.
From $38,995. The thick-plate answer for most mining shops. Pairs with the Hypertherm MAXPRO200 for production cutting of heavy AR plate with long consumable life.
From $127,000. The Arc Max X HD CNC Plasma Table, industrial-class cutting with the Hypertherm XPR170 — or step up to the XPR300 at $137,500 — for rebuild operations that cut heavy plate all day, every day.
From $29,295. Arclight’s top seller, built in Bend, Oregon. The right fit for guards, brackets, and general maintenance fabrication running alongside a thick-plate machine.
Compare Them Side by Side
For wear-parts work the rows that decide it are plate capacity, which plasma source is on the machine, and what each price actually includes before you compare the numbers.
Identical across all three columns: FlashCut CNC industrial control, the Arc Max heavy-duty platform, and 5×10 and 6×12 cutting sizes on every model. Prices shown are starting prices. Get a quote and we’ll spec the right one against your actual work.
Why Mining Operations Choose Arclight
The math is simple. Outsourced wear parts carry vendor markup, freight both directions, and lead times measured in weeks — and a down crusher doesn’t wait for any of it. Bringing wear-part cutting in-house lowers the cost per liner, but the real return is downtime avoided: patterns on file, plate on the rack, and a replacement cut in hours instead of ordered in weeks.
The other reason is duty rating. These are not hobby machines dressed up in industrial paint: the Arc Max line is heavy-duty construction carrying the same industrial Hypertherm plasma the big fabrication houses run, sized for a maintenance shop and priced with every number published. Your procurement team gets a real quote with real figures, not a configurator maze.
And once the table is on the floor, it stops being a wear-parts machine only. Guards, handrail brackets, mounting plates, and one-off repair steel all migrate onto it — and the outsourced-cutting line in the maintenance budget keeps shrinking.
Worth knowing: tables arrive 98% assembled, most shops are cutting shortly after delivery, and a $500 deposit reserves your build slot.
Proof in the Plate
We won’t hand you a staged case study. Arclight tables run in mine maintenance shops and wear-parts rebuild operations across the country, cutting chute liners, wear plate, and bolt-on ground-engaging parts in AR400 and AR500 — and the Arc Max line’s cut capability is documented Hypertherm spec, not marketing copy. Ask us for cut samples in your plate grade and thickness and put the edge quality in your own hands. When you own one, lifetime US-based support, same-day parts, and a real person on the phone keep it cutting, however far the site is from anywhere.
Support That Reaches Remote Sites
Mine sites are a long way from everybody’s service department, which is why Arclight support is built around the phone and the parts box, not a service truck. Lifetime US-based support comes with every table and follows the machine itself, even if it changes hands. Parts ship same-day. The motion system carries a 3-year warranty, and a 30-day guarantee backs the whole machine.
Mining Plasma Table Questions, Answered
Can a CNC plasma table cut AR400 and AR500 wear plate?
Yes. AR400 and AR500 cut on a CNC plasma table much like mild steel of the same thickness — abrasion-resistant plate is hard, not heat-proof. Plasma is the industry-standard process for wear plate because it delivers clean, square-edge parts at a fraction of laser or waterjet cost.
How thick can a CNC plasma table cut?
That depends on the plasma source. The Arc Max Unlimited pairs with the Hypertherm MAXPRO200 for production thick-plate cutting, and the Arc Max X HD runs the Hypertherm XPR170 or XPR300 for the heaviest work. Most mining wear parts — 3/8-inch to 1-inch AR plate — sit comfortably in range.
Is plasma or laser better for cutting wear plate?
For wear parts, plasma wins on economics. Fabrication services report plasma cutting AR plate at roughly a quarter the cost of laser and a tenth the cost of waterjet — and thick abrasion-resistant plate is exactly where lasers slow down. Laser earns its premium on thin, tight-tolerance work, not chute liners.
Does plasma cutting soften AR plate at the edge?
Plasma leaves a narrow heat-affected zone at the cut edge, typically a few millimeters, where hardness drops off. For chute liners, skid plates, and screen plates, that thin edge band wears in without affecting service life. If a spec requires full hardness to the very edge, allow for finish machining.
Can we cut chute liners and screen plates in-house instead of outsourcing?
That is exactly what mining shops buy these tables for. Keep AR400 and AR500 drops in stock, store liner and screen patterns as cut files, and turn replacements around in hours instead of weeks. You skip the vendor markup and stop scheduling maintenance around someone else’s cutting queue.
What support do we get at a remote mine site?
Every Arclight table includes lifetime US-based support from technicians who know the machine, plus same-day parts shipping — a serious advantage when the nearest service tech is hours away. The motion system carries a 3-year warranty, and the support follows the table itself, even if it changes owners.
What software nests wear-part patterns?
The FlashCut CAD/CAM included with tables like the Arc Pro Elite V3 and Arc Max Elite imports DXF files from any engineering package, nests parts to minimize scrap on expensive AR plate, and generates cut programs in minutes. Draw a liner once, save the file, and recut the same pattern every rebuild.
Cut Your Next Liner In-House
Tell us what you cut — plate grades, thicknesses, and the parts that hurt most when they’re late — and we’ll spec the right table and plasma source for the work, with real numbers on the quote. Procurement needs paperwork; we’re good at paperwork.
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