Re: O.T. Plasma cutter

Steve Taylor wrote:

> Or do I have to cool my heels till Monday ?

Well, SIP STILL haven't delivered a manual but.....

Bwaaa hahahahahah !! IT WORKS !. The secret is to depress the tip
against the work, and the arc strikes. I just spent a happy half an hour
cutting curlicues and filigree out of 5mm plate steel, not far short as
fast as you could draw with a pencil....

What a tool. Worth every penny. Make sure you have a fat power circuit
though.

Steve

> I just spent a happy half an hour
>cutting curlicues and filigree out of 5mm plate steel, not far short as
>fast as you could draw with a pencil....

Glad you got it going Steve (green with envy here)

Nick

Steve Taylor vaguely muttered something like ...

> What a tool. Worth every penny. Make sure you have a fat power circuit
> though.

First welding kit my brother got )He's now a professional welder) was used
on a circuit in the shed, fed from the house lights ..

He somehow blew the whole street ... apparently some fault in a local
sub-station co-incided with his 'practice welds' ...


--
Paul ...

(8(|) ... Homer Rocks

"A tosser is a tosser, no matter what mode of transport they're using."

Steve Taylor wrote:

> What a tool. Worth every penny. Make sure you have a fat power circuit
> though.

Ah but....
Beware.

The model I have, the 25 SHOULD have a pilot arc start - this unit
doesn't- its got a bump start, therefore its been built
wrong.....copious apologies from SIP, and NEW cutter coming on Friday....

and its also very clever, its capacity is 5mm or 1/4" - so if you cut
imperial sizes, you get 27% more capacity. How it can tell I don't
know...

Steve

On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 00:13:47 +0100, "Paul S. Brown"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Steve Taylor wrote:
>
>> Alex wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> You use an air powered hacksaw.
>>
>> To cut 20mm circles ?
>>
>
>I personally use a hole saw for that.
>
>P.

Thank you, I was about to say that.

And you can attach that to an Air Drill, as well

Alex

Steve Taylor wrote:

> EMB wrote:
> .... and laser cut it (250mm aluminium to cut
>> anyone?).....our toys are better than yours, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah
>
> Bloody hell yes. 250mm in ALUMINIUM. How ?
>

He works for British Alcan? Their ingots are around 6 feet long by a
eighteen inches deep.

P.

Steve Taylor wrote:

> Paul S. Brown wrote:
>> Steve Taylor wrote:
>>
>>
>>>EMB wrote:
>>>.... and laser cut it (250mm aluminium to cut
>>>
>>>>anyone?).....our toys are better than yours, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah
>>>
>>>Bloody hell yes. 250mm in ALUMINIUM. How ?
>>>
>>
>>
>> He works for British Alcan? Their ingots are around 6 feet long by a
>> eighteen inches deep.
>
> But a laser cut in 10" of the stuff ? I wonder how they do it? Its so
> conductive, I's love to know how they get the power in.
>
I guess it helps to have your own hydro-power plant with a few tens of MW of
availalble electricity.

Or more likely he meant 25mm.

P.

But I have not got a air hacksaw or an air drill but I have got a plasma
cutter and dought I will ever need to cut up a ally ingot in to bits but I
might need to cut up my landy Ha Ha ))))))))))))))

Rich


"Alex" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 00:13:47 +0100, "Paul S. Brown"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >Steve Taylor wrote:
> >
> >> Alex wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> You use an air powered hacksaw.
> >>
> >> To cut 20mm circles ?
> >>
> >
> >I personally use a hole saw for that.
> >
> >P.
>
> Thank you, I was about to say that.
>
> And you can attach that to an Air Drill, as well
>
> Alex

Alex wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 00:13:47 +0100, "Paul S. Brown"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>>Steve Taylor wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Alex wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>You use an air powered hacksaw.
>>>
>>>To cut 20mm circles ?
>>>
>>
>>I personally use a hole saw for that.
>>
>>P.
>
>
> Thank you, I was about to say that.
>
> And you can attach that to an Air Drill, as well
>

Alright, you can't easily pierce with a hacksaw. You can't cut out
square shapes even, without great care, you can't follow a template.

You can't cut arbitrary shapes with a holesaw. You can't cut tight radii
with a hacksaw.

And you can't cut at 6" per second in 1mm steel.....

Your move.

Steve

Steve Taylor wrote:

> EMB wrote:
> .... and laser cut it (250mm aluminium to cut
>> anyone?).....our toys are better than yours, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah
>
> Bloody hell yes. 250mm in ALUMINIUM. How ?
>

He works for British Alcan? Their ingots are around 6 feet long by a
eighteen inches deep.

P.

Paul S. Brown wrote:
> Steve Taylor wrote:
>
>
>>EMB wrote:
>>.... and laser cut it (250mm aluminium to cut
>>
>>>anyone?).....our toys are better than yours, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah
>>
>>Bloody hell yes. 250mm in ALUMINIUM. How ?
>>
>
>
> He works for British Alcan? Their ingots are around 6 feet long by a
> eighteen inches deep.

But a laser cut in 10" of the stuff ? I wonder how they do it? Its so
conductive, I's love to know how they get the power in.

Steve

Steve Taylor wrote:

> Paul S. Brown wrote:
>> Steve Taylor wrote:
>>
>>
>>>EMB wrote:
>>>.... and laser cut it (250mm aluminium to cut
>>>
>>>>anyone?).....our toys are better than yours, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah
>>>
>>>Bloody hell yes. 250mm in ALUMINIUM. How ?
>>>
>>
>>
>> He works for British Alcan? Their ingots are around 6 feet long by a
>> eighteen inches deep.
>
> But a laser cut in 10" of the stuff ? I wonder how they do it? Its so
> conductive, I's love to know how they get the power in.
>
I guess it helps to have your own hydro-power plant with a few tens of MW of
availalble electricity.

Or more likely he meant 25mm.

P.

Steve Taylor wrote:
>
> Alright, you can't easily pierce with a hacksaw. You can't cut out
> square shapes even, without great care, you can't follow a template.
>
> You can't cut arbitrary shapes with a holesaw. You can't cut tight radii
> with a hacksaw.
>
> And you can't cut at 6" per second in 1mm steel.....

Take it to work, and laser cut it (250mm aluminium to cut
anyone?).....our toys are better than yours, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah

--
EMB
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On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 00:13:47 +0100, "Paul S. Brown"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Steve Taylor wrote:
>
>> Alex wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> You use an air powered hacksaw.
>>
>> To cut 20mm circles ?
>>
>
>I personally use a hole saw for that.
>
>P.

Thank you, I was about to say that.

And you can attach that to an Air Drill, as well

Alex

EMB wrote:
..... and laser cut it (250mm aluminium to cut
> anyone?).....our toys are better than yours, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah

Bloody hell yes. 250mm in ALUMINIUM. How ?

Steve