Posted by rankrank1 on January 08, 2012 at 09:03:23 from (69.171.171.232):
In Reply to: cutting steel.... posted by Glenn Warner on January 07, 2012 at 15:42:54:
a) My #1 cutting tool is cut off wheel in a 4.5 inch handheld grinder. This is indispensable on any repair based work. Will cut hardened metal or mild steel.
b) Electric sawz-all is probably my number #2 used most cutter as it can fit small places - useful on wood too.
c) #3 mosted used cutter is a small 3" zizz wheel in either an electric die-grinder or air die grinder.
d) #4 cutter is a jig saw on thin stuff - again useful for wood too.
e) I also have a cheap 14" chop saw and it is useful for cutting new stock or angles when building large projects from scratch which I rarely do. Really it is useless for most repair based work and I could easily do without it.
e) I also use the electric arc welder to cut metal and to pierce holes in metal using 6011 rods. Cuts are not plasma quality but very useable with a little clean-up and cost is nearly nothing - electricity only.
f) For heating metal I again use the electric arc welder and a twin carbon arc torch to heat metal for bending, brazing, freeing rusted nuts, and silver soldering. Again cost is almost nothing - electricity. FWIW: twin carbon arc has more btu potential if desired than even oxy/acet.
FWIW: I actually do own a large Smith Oxy/Acetylene torch that I inherited from my Dad when he passed. I retired it years ago when the last tank lease expired. I simply got tired of paying the high dollar tank leases and the cost of the gas was expensive then - but it is much worse in cost now. Plus the gas would always run out when you needed it most and could not get it refilled. I literally have not missed it one bit as I have other alternatives to do every task for me that the torch could do. Some people need oxy/acet, but I am simply not one of them.
Plasma would be nice, but I do not do enough curved shapes to justify owning it. I can easily make do with other alternatives that I already own.
This post was edited by rankrank1 at 09:19:55 01/08/12 4 times.
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