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Arnoud

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I've been playing with my ESAB MigCut 250/50 today (well, the plasma cutter bit of it anyway; the welder works perfectly fine), cutting the wings off a Mini Van for flipfront purposes. The thing works fine but only for a few secs, then stops. Airflow continues for another few seconds (probably to cool the head down a bit). Only after that's stopped can I resume. I thought you were supposed to be able to cut for a bit longer than just a few secs? Or is this normal on a (semi) professional plasma cutter?
I appear to be the only one on the planet who owns one of these 107kg, 380V behemoths btw: no info available anywhere on the web and I don't have the manual...*wink*

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Arnoud

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found the other earth lead at the back of the machine...oops*happy*

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Lol is this one of these inverter jobs off ebay? Ive been scouting these for a whipe but cant make my mind up if theyre shit or not

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On 7th Apr, 2010 MikeRace said:
Lol is this one of these inverter jobs off ebay? Ive been scouting these for a whipe but cant make my mind up if theyre shit or not


If you get the right one then they're great.

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On 7th Apr, 2010 MikeRace said:
Lol is this one of these inverter jobs off ebay? Ive been scouting these for a whipe but cant make my mind up if theyre shit or not


I bought a Giant Cut 40 a couple of weeks ago.

They do take a steady hand, but it certainly cuts through metal. Maybe not as neat as some videos might suggest, but I'm sure a lot of that is technique.

Ive used it to cut a lot of holes and parts on my front suspension cradle ( Granada ) Some parts are maybe 2-3mm thick and others around 8mm thick.
So far I am impressed it does cut with ease, but the holes etc do take a little cleaning up after.

The only danger I would see, is they do produce a massive shower of sparks behind the cut. So there are obvious fire risks

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