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General Mach Discussion / Re: Physical buttons for plasma
« on: January 17, 2016, 02:34:28 PM »
Got the plasma cutter on Wednesday night and spent the next day making a mess of metal
I don't know how I managed without it before
I tried various settings and various metals and it works great.
Cut 3mm up to 20mm Alu, 4mm up to 16mm stainless and 2mm up to 32mm steel and it was amazing to use.
Just wish I had the time to get the table built straight away, sadly that will have to wait a while as I have a fair amount of work on at the moment.
Have been using it for one of these jobs, cutting 10mm alu sheets up, it is like a knife through butter, cut a section with it that took maybe 5 mins to do, would have taken me near an hour with a grinder I think.
Cut a hole in the centre of the section, 150mm dia, just milled a thin piece of alu out at 160mm internal dia and used that as a template, piece of cake
CNC will make things much neater and easier though
Hood
I don't know how I managed without it before
I tried various settings and various metals and it works great.
Cut 3mm up to 20mm Alu, 4mm up to 16mm stainless and 2mm up to 32mm steel and it was amazing to use.
Just wish I had the time to get the table built straight away, sadly that will have to wait a while as I have a fair amount of work on at the moment.
Have been using it for one of these jobs, cutting 10mm alu sheets up, it is like a knife through butter, cut a section with it that took maybe 5 mins to do, would have taken me near an hour with a grinder I think.
Cut a hole in the centre of the section, 150mm dia, just milled a thin piece of alu out at 160mm internal dia and used that as a template, piece of cake
CNC will make things much neater and easier though
Hood