Paul Allwood
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Equipment
Kubota B7200HSTD, RC60-72H MMM, homemade FEL, forks & ballast box, rotary hoe
I've finally had a go at using my new plasma cutter in a real project today - still trying to work out how to use it properly.
It's a Unimig Envy Cut 45 Air. I'm in Australia so it runs off 240 Vac, and it has an on-board compressor. It also has a "smart-cut" feature where I dual up the material and thickness and it sets the current and air pressure.
Below is the third cut I made in 12 mm mild steel plate. The first 2 cuts looked about the same. There's a lot of dross on the bottom of the cut - some stick to the scrap, some stick to the workpiece.
The dross chips away easily.
For the plasma cutters out there, does this look normal or is there something I should do to improve it ?
Here are the settings the machine chose.
It also displays a suggested cutting speed, 400 mm/min in this case. I tried to judge this manually by working out how long it should take to run the whole length of the cut.
It's a Unimig Envy Cut 45 Air. I'm in Australia so it runs off 240 Vac, and it has an on-board compressor. It also has a "smart-cut" feature where I dual up the material and thickness and it sets the current and air pressure.
Below is the third cut I made in 12 mm mild steel plate. The first 2 cuts looked about the same. There's a lot of dross on the bottom of the cut - some stick to the scrap, some stick to the workpiece.
The dross chips away easily.
For the plasma cutters out there, does this look normal or is there something I should do to improve it ?
Here are the settings the machine chose.
It also displays a suggested cutting speed, 400 mm/min in this case. I tried to judge this manually by working out how long it should take to run the whole length of the cut.