my first project!

[gayler]

Don't laugh! I don't know why its upside down. Its right side up in my pictures. I even rotated it upside down in my pictures and reuploaded it here and it didn't change.

 

[gayler]

My boys names. It is sheet metal from an old microwave oven cut with my Cut 50 F.

 

[Feint Motion]

Looks great!

 

[gayler]

Thanks! I used chalk and paper stencils to mark it out. I have some shake to my hands so it wasn't real smooth.

 

[nine4gmc]

It's hard to follow letter contours free hand with any cutting tool, good job! I just used my Cut50 to take apart some ATM machines for my scrap guy and got some free 1/2" plate for my time.

 

[gayler]

It's hard to follow letter contours free hand with any cutting tool, good job! I just used my Cut50 to take apart some ATM machines for my scrap guy and got some free 1/2" plate for my time.

Thanks! I played around with it cutting everything from thin sheet metal to some old grader blades that are 1/2 thick. It will cut 1/2 in, but its ugly. I think it would do better at home with my shop compressor. The tiny one at work cant keep up.

 

[racingtadpole]

Dry air will also help.

 

[nine4gmc]

Thanks! I played around with it cutting everything from thin sheet metal to some old grader blades that are 1/2 thick. It will cut 1/2 in, but its ugly. I think it would do better at home with my shop compressor. The tiny one at work cant keep up.

Maybe so, I have a 60 gal in my shop and 1/2" cut like butter. You can see the downward facing "D" shape I cut out of the 1/2" plate steel door here.

 

[gayler]

Maybe so, I have a 60 gal in my shop and 1/2" cut like butter. You can see the downward facing "D" shape I cut out of the 1/2" plate steel door here.

I don't see a link.

 

[nine4gmc]

Sorry, here:

 

[gayler]

Sorry, here:

That is a clean cut.

 

[nine4gmc]

Yes, I haven't used the machine a whole lot but the times I did I was more than impressed and satisfied with my purchase.

 

[gayler]

How are the consumables holding out?

 

[nine4gmc]

When I first got it, I tried cutting 5/8" plate and was doing it wrong, I went through several tips from the plasma blowing back into the tip. After posting about it on here, everyone said to come in on an angle on the thicker materials and ever since then the consumables have been lasting a LOT longer.

 

[Daves69]

Don't laugh! I don't know why its upside down. Its right side up in my pictures. I even rotated it upside down in my pictures and reuploaded it here and it didn't change.

Are you taking pictures with an Apple product? If so keep the home button to the right when taking pictures. I had the same trouble using picture taken from my Ipad.

 

[tractordude]

Buy drag tips for your plasma cutter. A drag tip can be set directly on the steel plate with out sticking to the plate. Then is just a matter of following your soapstone lines

This was done with a drag tip.

 

[nine4gmc]

That came out great Tractordude!

Anyone have a link to drag tips for a Cut50F?


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[tractordude]

That came out great Tractordude!

Anyone have a link to drag tips for a Cut50F?


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Thanks!!!!
I should clarify about the tips, some machines use a drag cone. That keeps the tip off the steel 1/16th or so.
I have a Thermal Dynamics cutmaster 42, Which uses a drag tip. I can lay the tip directly on the steel.
I also seen machines with a set of rollers attached to the cutting head. Those were popular back in my H.S. days, running a gas torch.

Having direct contact to the work surface makes cutting artsy stuff much easier.

 

[gayler]

Are you taking pictures with an Apple product? If so keep the home button to the right when taking pictures. I had the same trouble using picture taken from my Ipad.

Yes an iPhone. Thanks!

 

[dwp99]

Here you go I flipped it for you.

I had the same problem with my iphone got to keep the home button on the right

 

[saceone]

the shakyness adds some flavor to it, I like it