Plasma Cut Aluminum Sheet

Typical materials cut with a plasma torch include steel stainless steel aluminum brass and copper although other conductive metals may be cut as well.

Plasma cut aluminum sheet.

If you don t you ll find you get a very contaminated bead. Consider a plasma cutter depending on the thickness of the aluminum sheet. The benefit is that freeform cuts can be made to metal based on guiding the cutter. Thick in several ways such as from 45 to 260 amps and mixtures of air air or argon helium.

For example a high amperage plasma system can cut aluminum 1 4 in. Different amperages and gases provide different results such as increased productivity a good edge finish or tight tolerances. The pm 30 will cut your 125 aluminum just fine. It will take a moment to start and then the aluminium will start being cut.

Take into account the high speed machining. If you plan to cut thick aluminum sheet your plasma cutter should feature a wider gap and bigger arcs among them. You re not going to get a saw clean cut with any plasma but it will cut it. Press the plasma cutter button.

This instructable is strictly to show practical operation of a plasma cutter. One of the benefits of plasma is its ability to cut most any metal including aluminum. Using a plasma cutter is very convenient and fairly easy. Once you see the sheet is being cut hold it a little above and start moving it to cut a greater area.

To cut the sheets of metal rathe. Plasma cutting performed by an industrial robot plasma cutting is a process that cuts through electrically conductive materials by means of an accelerated jet of hot plasma. If you re going to be tig welding the cut edge you will have to do further edge prep to remove the oxides left by the plasma. Since this machine works by directing plasma through the creation of a circuit a ground clamp is necessary much like welding.