Plasma Chart?

[Mark @ Everlast]

The cut is rated at 3-5 inches, per minute, with fresh consumables and clean, dry air. 1/16" standoff height. (edge cut). As far as maximum cut the tech specs say 7/8"max severance. The blurbage up top does mention 1" on our site, but probably a mistake on my part when I was setting the page up with the information and typing it based off of memory (faulty). I will make sure it gets changed tonight. There are basically 3 cut capacities we typically refer too. Maximum severance cut (7/8") which is the maximum reasonable cut you can expect and it still come apart if you are patient enough. There will be dross and it will not be a pretty cut compared to lesser thickness cuts. Maximum clean cut capacity. This is where the unit will cut at a slower speed, but still yield a decent cut with less dross and clean separation of the metal. Then you have the average daily cut capacity. In short, this is the maximum thickness you want to cut on a regular, daily basis for reasonable speed hand cutting.

 

[CDN Farm Boy]

I've been using my plasma a bit more lately working on a grapple for my existing bucket. Came back to this thread since I couldn't remember what I was doing. A couple more questions have come up:

Roughly speaking, how long should the consumables last? Can anyone give me a guesstimate on how many feet of cut I should expect from a set? They seem to wear out quicker than I'd have expected. I'm cutting 3/8" plate, 40A & 72ish psi as per recommendations here. Lots of clean, dry air.

Should I be replacing both the tip and the electrode at the same time or should one outlast the other?

 

[Mark @ Everlast]

Replace what is worn. Electrodes typically wear slower than the tips. A lot of circumstances affect cut life.

One thing, I do know of a OEM Italian source of consumables here in the US for the torches that do seem to somewhat outlast our OEM Chinese made ones. (Torches are made by Tec.mo in Italy and by Innotec in China under license). Google Plasmadyne . Their number will pop up next to a statement saying this location permanently closed. Ignore that. They also have a E bay site...but somewhat difficult to navigate to find what you want.
Call them. They have great prices too and additional configurations of the consumables and sizes. They seem to be decent enough people out of MO.

 

[Mark @ Everlast]

Just realized you had S-45. Same thing applies...call them. They have those as well. The newer ipt 60 torches last longer on the consumables for sure.

 

[CDN Farm Boy]

Replace what is worn. Electrodes typically wear slower than the tips. A lot of circumstances affect cut life.

That's what I have been doing but don't know if I 'should' be getting 10' of cut or 100'.

One thing, I do know of a OEM Italian source of consumables here in the US for the torches that do seem to somewhat outlast our OEM Chinese made ones. (Torches are made by Tec.mo in Italy and by Innotec in China under license). Google Plasmadyne . Their number will pop up next to a statement saying this location permanently closed. Ignore that. They also have a E bay site...but somewhat difficult to navigate to find what you want.
Call them. They have great prices too and additional configurations of the consumables and sizes. They seem to be decent enough people out of MO.

Thanks. I'll look them up as I need to order some soon. I can get a 180 pc set from Duncan (35 tips, 35 electrodes, 5 caps) which puts it at about $3.75 CDN per tip/electrode set. No idea if that's good or not