Everlast Welders - Welders and Plasma Cutters by Everlast

[Mark @ Everlast]

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Davy,

I thought the same thing when I got my first plasma cutter. I cut up several thousand feet of square tubing with it for building farm equipment. It was faster than a chop saw, and almost as fine of cut as the bandsaw, especially on the 3/16 tubing.

 

[Hoosier Hay Man]

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I purchased a PowerARC 200 yesterday. I will post an update when I receive it and get a chance to try it out. It will be used to for fab work and repair work around the farm. If this works out maybe a plasma in the future as well.

 

[chad22]

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Those plasma cutters look cool. I want to one day get one. And probably will.

Chad

 

[Mark @ Everlast]

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We'll have a nice discount waiting for you if you do so before Christmas!

 

[crazyal]

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Those plasma cutters look cool. I want to one day get one. And probably will.

Chad

You'll find all sorts of uses for it once you have one. I built a garage this summer and decided to change the way the stairs go to the second floor. I had used the Simpson stair hangers the first time but this time around they really weren't long enough to catch the floor joist. So I made my own, took less than 10 minutes to make all three.

It was cold out so my hand wasn't as steady as could be so the cuts aren't as smooth as the machine is capable of. It's 3/16" thick steel. I even made slots to help bend it (and then filled back in with the MIG) and nail holes.

 

[shade tree welder]

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You'll find all sorts of uses for it once you have one. I built a garage this summer and decided to change the way the stairs go to the second floor. I had used the Simpson stair hangers the first time but this time around they really weren't long enough to catch the floor joist. So I made my own, took less than 10 minutes to make all three.

It was cold out so my hand wasn't as steady as could be so the cuts aren't as smooth as the machine is capable of. It's 3/16" thick steel. I even made slots to help bend it (and then filled back in with the MIG) and nail holes.

I have used the same technique to bend steel, I call it a poor man's brake,
with my plasma I use peice of 1/8" flat bar as a straight edge, with my
drag tip the drag tip is 1/2" in diameter so I have to offset the straight edge
a quarter inch.

Mark, I did not see where your consumables are on your site, do you have
drag tips for your torches?

 

[Mark @ Everlast]

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ALL of our torches can be dragged "drug?" up to 30 amps, the technical limit for drag cutting. Of course, it can be done at higher amps, but at peril of consumable life.

 

[Shield Arc]

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crazyal when cutting steel I use my magnetic burning square. I used a couple small machine screws to attach a piece of aluminum angle to it when I use my plasma. Take the angle back off when using my oxygen acetylene torch.

 

[shade tree welder]

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ALL of our torches can be dragged "drug?" up to 30 amps, the technical limit for drag cutting. Of course, it can be done at higher amps, but at peril of consumable life.

I am not a grammar specialist but I think drug is correct...

On my torch the "drag tip" as I call it is really more of a stand off than a tip;
the actual tip is kept electrically isolated from the "drag tip" and therefore
it does not eat up consumable life my machine is a 55 amp and cost a whole
lot more than your 60 amp machine which has similar cut ratings. I have to
say you provide a heck of a value to the market on the pricing I have seen on
your site.

If you had been around back then I would have had to think hard on my
equipment purchases.

 

[crazyal]

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It was cold so I didn't bother setting up a straight edge and it's not readily seen so I went free hand. Just a couple of quick scribe marks and went to town. I'm sure if I had spent a little more time I could have made much nicer cuts and used the shop press to bend it exact.