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Plasma cutters are like electronic calculators (remember those) IMO they all work. The OP had mentioned money more than once. Rather...

I have had a Miller Spectrum 375 for years, but I bought a Primeweld CUT 60 last Black Friday so I can cut more than sheet metal. Don’t...

I have a Miller 625 on a CNC table. My brother & father both have different brands of "Amazon special" plasma cutters. Dollar for dollar...

Both are a pretty ****** option.. you either go cheap plasma, or hypertherm. Anything else in between is just paying extra money for...

Made a bit of progress tearing into the “old” R15 pump today. Not sure, but for now I’m saying it dates to the late 60s since that’s...

This project is finished. New electric motor, wiring, paint, flywheel repair and added an indicator light. Just need to do a little...

x10 looks great!

Looks great!

That's how I brought my mill home. Strapped it to a pallet. Pallet jack made it an easy job.

And now we have a backup/aux pump. Locally seller had an R15 that was very long in tooth and badly in need of some attention. But for...

Bonus from drawing air from a clean air space and never getting the grinding dust etc in the filter

Here are some estimates of the improved compressor performance by running at constant power and then derating as pressure rises. Let's...

Literally. I'm thinking of a couple related enhancements like having an air mover blowing on the motor/pump since the air flow of the...

Sounds good. I feel since you're going that far, a cheap 12v rad fan controlled by the VFD to cool everything for x amount of time once...

First world problem.