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cool product for welders!
- Thread starter supersize75k5
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Cool, but I have all that stuff built into my cart. And you could make that in 15 minutes...
supersize75k5
OrganDonorRacing.com
Ya but i dont have a plama yet.. so hole cutting is stonageish at best for me
I don't like the idea of using my bottle as a tool rack. That's what I have my cart and my toolbox for. The wrench looks useless other than as a comical paperweight.
Rene
Rene
motomech
Registered Member
Ya but i dont have a plama yet.. so hole cutting is stonageish at best for me
Let me know if you need anything special cut with a plasma cutter since i have one.
Plasmas are nice, wish the retards at my shop took better care of ours... seems every time I want to use it I have to replace pretty much everything in the gun!! 
Fabrimacator21
1/2 ton status
Plasmas are nice, wish the retards at my shop took better care of ours... seems every time I want to use it I have to replace pretty much everything in the gun!!
Plasmas are nice but as long as I'm not doing a bunch of sheezmetal I'll take a torch anyday. Much more versatile.
Versatile yes, but much m0re expensive to use. Factor in slower cutting time and preheating, and the operation cost just increases.
I find both to be invaluable. Each has thier place.
Fabrimacator21
1/2 ton status
I can get along without a plas but not without a torch. A torch will be the first thing on my list after I get a welder for home use. I do alot of heavy equipment repair... the plasma rarely gets pulled out.
Torches are cheaper to buy, don't need repairs at $75 an hour, don't need power, don't need new tips nearly as often, and can cut 6" of steel and are invaluble in repair. Basically anything you can do with a plas you can do with a torch (short of cutting 16 gauge and smaller cleanly) and whole lot more. I will agree that gas isn't cheap but neither is a power bill and repairs from the plas.
Gotta factor in one more advantage for a plasma. Not soaking an assload of heat into the material in order to cut it.
For cutting anything under 5/8" thick I'll take a plasma everytime.
For bevelling, material over 5/8", heat straightening etc etc a torch wins out. I don't like a torch in a home garage though, a plasma is a much 'safer' alternative.
Rene
For cutting anything under 5/8" thick I'll take a plasma everytime.
For bevelling, material over 5/8", heat straightening etc etc a torch wins out. I don't like a torch in a home garage though, a plasma is a much 'safer' alternative.
Rene
Fabrimacator21
1/2 ton status
True... I forgot about that. We've had a number of jobs where a plasma was the ONLY way to do it. Where the torch would have burned paint on the near by parts and warped the sheetmetal the plasma didn't do either. And yes I've started a fire or two without knowing with a torch. Caught my coveralls on fire more then once.
You haven't lived until you've caught your coveralls on fire. Rene
Rene
Yup I have also had that "man its getting warm in here" feeling...lol
Fabrimacator21
1/2 ton status
Yup I have also had that "man its getting warm in here" feeling...lol
haha... I've done it more times then I can count... first comes the "damn this is a hot weld", then comes the Oh ****... I'm on fire! I'm on fire! I'm on fire!.
It's bad when you get all nonchalant about being on fire...
"hmmm, pretty sure I'm on fire. I really should finish this weld though."
Rene
"hmmm, pretty sure I'm on fire. I really should finish this weld though."
Rene
Fabrimacator21
1/2 ton status
It's bad when you get all nonchalant about being on fire...
"hmmm, pretty sure I'm on fire. I really should finish this weld though."
Rene
LOL... I'd cut my finger off before I ruined a weld!
supersize75k5
OrganDonorRacing.com
It's bad when you get all nonchalant about being on fire...
"hmmm, pretty sure I'm on fire. I really should finish this weld though."
Rene
ha I have a pair of pants here that might as well be made of lint.. I wear them when im geting dirty and often while welding..
im hot
im hot
wait.. im really hot
weld..
almost
ouch
ouch
OUCH
Fabrimacator21
1/2 ton status
LOL... I'd cut my finger off before I ruined a weld!
I remember getting hit in the head with a welding screen in the middle of a weld (wind) and I just kept on burning... around those parts a bad weld ment an ass chewing or a lost job.
ha I have a pair of pants here that might as well be made of lint.. I wear them when im geting dirty and often while welding..
im hot
im hot
wait.. im really hot
weld..
almost
ouch
ouch
OUCH
haha, yup I have that one pair I wear every time I weld or work on my truck. Not much left of em but until they are all gone, I can't justify ruining another pair.
