CNC Plasma, and potential laser cutting/plasma projects

Cool Stuff in Numerical Control Programming Class

I've been assigned to come up with some maintenance documentation for the Plasma CNC we have at our school. It is obvious that it isn't used much. The documentation for the torchmate 2 system is nicely done. I believe it was a previous senior project from a kit, and it's obvious the students did a wonderful job setting it up.

Today, I had the opportunity to start the machine up (after carefully reading the documentation) and jog the x and y axis around. I'd like to measure the kerf sometime soon to document that.

I eventually will need to come up with a sample part that my professor will be able to easily demo to prospective students. So i'm trying to come up with ideas for that. Here are some neat links with great ideas and source files:

http://www.cnczone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5276

http://www.cnczone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19346

In my research about the CNC plasma cutters I've stumbled across a wealth of resources that I wish I had time to dive into right now.
http://www.cncinformation.com/advanced-robotic-tech-cnc-plasma-cutter-videos/

which has a variety of videos talking about CNC plasma cutting.

I signed up for a yahoo group where I was able to find a majority of these resources from:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/plasmacutting/