Forgot to mention that the retainer needs to be seated fully to depress the safety switch in the head. Otherwise it won’t run either. Good info from all your videos.
You, my friend, are an excellent teacher. You remind me of my shop teacher in 8th grade. Yes folks, there was a time when our schools taught the trades as early as 8th grade. You sir, would make fantastic shop teacher. Well presented and easy to follow. Thank thank you. CR
Agreed excellent excellent video. Yeah I do remember back in 8th grade wonderful experience it allowed me to have much more knowledge than just being dumped out after 12 years of school.
Great teacher I agree. In high school I took Drafting, wood shop, auto shop, and i think maybe welding. Anything to keep me away from the hard stuff like algebra. Now at 76 I tinker with something every day.
I'm glad I grew up going to a well funded rural school. Our ag shop building was bigger than the school itself. Was lucky enough to take wood, metal, welding, and drafting along with business classes. Not that I've used much of those skills after 😶
Even nowadays many (maybe not all) high schools have pretty good shop programs. My friend's sons (twins) built a "baja racer" in the high school auto shop a couple of years ago. For kids that want to do mechanical engineering at college it's a good thing to have experience in building race vehicles or similar. Now at college they get to work with Haas CNC machines and whatnot
@@Richard.Hybels I took Draughting, Electronics, Woodwork, and Metalwork - then went on to algebra, calculus, and physics that led to a survey diploma and later an engineering degree. Those shop courses in grade 8 through 12 really helped in understand the math and physics at university. Now I'm retired and still tinkering as well. :)
No unnecessary talk...no repetition.....no ummmmm...no "you know"?....one of the best to the point, well explained tutorials I have ever seen...great presentation
It's exactly the same, only our machines don't have all the bells and whistles the expensive ones do. I just bought (and love) my Lotos LTP5000D, a $379 beastie.
@@ljprep6250 Over a 5yr period of moderate use the Hypertherm will be a cheaper machine to own/operate / besides your consumables are stuck on the ships anchored in the harbor..
@@SegoMan I just checked the prices and have to disagree with you. I could buy 3 Lotos units and 100 consumables sets for that price. $379 vs $1,600+ is a BIG gap. And those consumables could be airlifted to me. ;)
@@SegoMan Perhaps on a commercial basis, the Hypertherm would be the way to go, but I'm retired. My cutting costs so far are much lower with the Lotos.
Great intro to plasma cutting. You touched on the electrocution risks but probably worth mentioning that plasma cutters have a much higher operating voltage than a welder has, hence the greater care needed to avoid getting zapped.
This video is one of the BEST I've ever seen on this topic. Three weeks of trade-school didn't cover this material half as well, plus it was boring tedious and expensive as hell. THIS GUY, on the other hand, knows his shit and delivers all the crucial knowledge concisely. THANK YOU!
Hot dang! I've been using my plasma cutter wrong and always get a bevel edge that drives me crazy thinking my unit was a POS! Looking forward to try your techniques. I had no idea travel speed caused the bevel, nor did I know about the CCW swirl. I even tried cutting at an angle to get a straight edge to no avail. Thanks for teaching this old dog some new tricks.
Bought a cheap plasma cutter to learn on and do a couple small jobs I've been putting off, this was just the video to get me started. Thanks! I have a feeling I'm going to end up putting more time into this and moving up to a better cutter once I get the hang of it, this looks like it's going to actually be more fun than work!
Can you slightly grind the tip of the nozzle or electrode to flatten it out a little and pollish it up some to get a little more life out of it or if you get caught on a job with no new tips? Obviously I wouldn't do it many times or let it get too thin.... Interested to hear your response. Thanks for all the good teaching; been a sub for a while now. Clay
Even a welder cant mess it up, but I guarantee a mechanic can. I got my plasma free from a mechanic because it was" broken". After a trigger failure he put a non pilot replacement gun on a pilot machine.
One way to judge your cut speed. Divide the recommended speed by 60 ( seconds per min.) . Multiply that by length of cut and do the “ one Mississippi” count. If you're a novice like me, it helped. And thanks for a great tutorial. I was not aware that torch parts were amp specific. Or I forgot.
At my old job me and another welder found a hypertherm powermax 150 collecting dust and cobwebs in the corner of the shop. We tried to convince our boss about investing in a pipe saddle to cut and bevel pipe, instead of being cut by a saw then machining the bevels. At first they didnt believe us (and possibly thought we didnt know what we were talking about) well 5 weeks later they bought it and they couldnt get enough of it. Just goes to show you that some conpanies do not know what they have and dont realize how knowledgeable their welders are.
Worker satisfaction is valuable to a firm. Workers designing the assembly line lead to worker satisfaction. Having friends working on the assembly line leads to worker satisfaction because they look forward to going to work. These are the findings of the Hawthorn and Ford studies. Firms ignore these findings at their own risk.
@@aguilayserpiente Yeah but that of thinking matters to professional tradesmen, ethical people care about the job they are doing. The modern neocon/neolib, supply side thinking, corporate bigwhig is not that person., they care about personal advancement & enrichment and "cheat to win, cheat your employees &, cheat the customer" is always their first choice. Take the rampant use in recent years of TARP money spent by companies buying back their own company stock. This is what many C.E.O.s decided to do because C.E.O.s compensation packages are tied to stock performance and this drove up share price which earned those C.E.O.s more money and increased increased the C.E.O. voting powers in board votes. None of this benefited employees, consumers or, shareholders, it didn't address any possible real problems the companies could be experiencing, it didn't do anything but spend a bunch of negative interest government loan money on inflating C.E.O. pay....... That is the mind of the Captain's of industry and as long as they can make enough profits for the owner class to live there lives if opulence & excess than worker happiness in not a thing corporate ameirca cares about.
Executive greed and self service soon leads to company collapse. Good for them and disastrous for everyone else including the stockholders that do not bail out in time.
The same goes for ANY JOB. Try working for he US Government😝. Talk about a bunch of empty suits with mammoth egos. It takes whatever school to get hired but beyond that it’s all how brown your nose is. The Landscape foreman at a federal prison I worked at told me a great one that just happened to him. The warden summoned him on a Monday morning matter of great concern. He was all worked up because the new trees they’d planted earlier in the year looked like they were dying . Something had to be done immediately! The foreman said he said he’d get right on it with the inmate crew. He told me “ how in hell could I tell him that a cold snap September in the Adirondack mountains made the trees go dormant”? I agreed, dummer than a boot considering that useless warden had been there for 3-4 years already🙄.
Something I've learned using my hyperthermia 30xp is always have a smooth surface to drag the torch on. Wether it's mill scale painted or bare metal. Trying to drag over rusted metal even if it's light can effect cut quality due to the extra friction causing the nozzle to skip.
Man I don’t tell people what to do very often but you need to be a high school shop teacher! Your instructions are absolutely perfect clear and concise. Zero boring bill shit. Bravo
I’m an old dog. You’re teaching me some new tricks! New to plasma and had no idea about cleaner edge of cut on the right side. Great info, I learned more in this one vid than in several others combined. Looking forward to seeing more of your tutorials. Keep it up.
Excellent informational lesson, thankyou for sharing. Waiting to get a cheap chinese 50 plasma cutter from ebay, hope it works ok. Become more experienced, up grade better quality cutter. 👍🏻👌🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🖐 🇦🇺
I have a cheap old unit and while its under 50 amps it works very well for what im doing u will love just having it and question why u never bought one before
Thanks for the vid. Very helpful. I have never been trained in plasma, but just used my oxy rig for everything for years, but I want to try to get a plasma cutter and this helps me understand the settings and consumables. The little nuances of knowledge like the cut swirl is gold. Thanks again.
Thank you for the great video. Very instructional to a newbie like me. If it wasn’t for folks like you and your team many of us might be too intimidated to try new things. The information you provide is greatly appreciated.
good vid Jason , you are every bit as good as Bob as a teacher and I di like your style, Like me Bob is just older with a tad more experience of age , again your are very good at teaching and getting the message across to all levels of experience, keep up the great work.
I'm doing apprentice plumbing and just finished 1st year at technical college in Calgary, Canada. I like your videos because they explain everything I need to know about cutting/welding for class. Thanks.
I like the video. You do a good job explaining the things we need to know and not dragging on things we don’t need to know. Seen a lot of fabricating videos , this is the first one I’ve subscribed to.
@21:10 in this case it should have been; “make your next CUT, better than your last!” 🤪 but joking to the side, thanks for your clear explanation. Do you have lighter (50A) everlast at the shop? Would like to see you practice on one of those. More hobby market level.
Great video . But keep in mind you should start at 105 amps and bring the amperage lower until you find the lowest amperage needed to cut that size material . That will increase consumable life and it should give the best cut quality . You never mentioned that the PowerMax 105 is a 3 phase ( 220/460 volt ) machine only . And if you don't have 3 phase Hypertherm make smaller single phase machine . ( the 125 is 3 phase 460 volt only ) . I say this because the company I work for has 3 105s and two 85s . We would have gone for the 125 but the voltage is an issues . These are used in the field mostly . We did have have a HPR 260 , then traded up to a HPR400XD . Sold those and now have a XPR300 . So I am a bit familiar with Hypertherm and their products . I will say this If you are a professional spend the extra money they are truly the best you can buy .
Hello Jason, great intro to Plasma cutting! Good that you also mentioned, at the end of the video, the possibility to use Plasma in combination with CNC, where it really shines :) I also have a Hypertherm Powermax and I am very happy with it. Since you talked about electrode negative/positive. I like to keep in mind that electrons - i.e. the negative "balls" in the atom grid - come out of the negative (hence minus) electrode and wander through the conductive material to the positive electrode (being positive attracts a lot of things). For those interested, the little electrons take it easy and wander relatively slow, e.g. in a 1 mm² copper wire and at 1 Ampere the speed of the electrons is just around 0,08 mm/sec. In Jason's case, he used 105 A (=> electrons speed up by 105, versus 1 Ampere) and a 4AWG (?) ground clamp (4AWG = 21.2 mm², => electrons slow down by 1/ 21.2). Thus, the speed of the electrons is about 0.4 mm/sec (105/21.2 => 5 times faster). At a cutting speed of 94 ipm, Jason was actually cutting 100 times faster than the electrons were travelling through the copper ground lead :) Now, tell me that electrical stuff is no fun :)
If I only knew or was taught these facts early, I may have saved myself from having to jump trades cuz I hated welding cuz the teacher was jus awful. Everyone is different, therefore we learn & may teach differently. Send me to the structural basics of reinforcing & strengthening.
@@eyesofagemini7715 The local HS just junked out a 24" Delta planer because it had a weird vibration (they kind ran the deck into the cutting head LoL)
Great tips as always! I work in my home shop so I cut over a metal 55gal drum that I turned into a safe plasma cutting table with water in the bottom. Added 1/8” x 1.5” flat bar every inch cut to length! Took about 30’ of the flat stock! Works fantastic!
Seen tons of crap videos about plasma cutters but this one is great!! Its refreshing to hear someone who knows what they are talking about and has useful information! Thank you!
Great vid...I'm new to welding and fabrication but watching your tutorials has taught me so much and given me the confidence to pull the trigger and build it...whatever it is... I'm a finishing carpenter by trade but always loved metal work..thanks to you and others I'm now doing it. God bless you and your family All the best for 2023
Great instructor. If you work by yourself, it may be hard to see the angle of the of the spark (too slow/fast) so showing the beveled piece will help you determine what was not right. Great job explaining the results of the cut.
Jason dont give up making videos man you do a good job elaborating on topics really enjoy when you put a new video out because I learn a lot even with things I'm knowledgeable with thanks again good video
Good video, covers the basics for a beginner like me, with no time wasted on unneccesaries. This helped me a great deal getting better cuts from my hobby machine.
Instructions unclear....plasma gun welded to workpiece..... Workpiece welded to table.... Rubbish under table caught fire and factory burned down..... Am officially unemployed from Monday..... Anyone need a carpenter????
This had so much great information. I need way more practice using a plasma. They are so useful & vleaner then Oxyfuel. Thanks for this video & keep up the great work gang
I really appreciate your details ,im a plasma newbie with experience of wielding.i might have known half of what you mentioned, just enough to get into trouble:) Thanks man.
Excellent video. Really excited about having the opportunity to work with one of these later on this year. Excellent instruction as the host was very thorough and knowledgeable. Thanks.
Very very good explanation, you guys are sooo professional on all your video. Bravo! You are THE welding channel to watch and learn the right way from competency to security. Many thanks from Canada!
Thank you. I have never had the opportunity to use a plasma cutter, only watched them being used. I knew there was a lot to them but had no idea it was that much. I'm glad you educated me because I can make a much better informed decision about buying one and avoid getting discouraged while trying to learn to use it. I had no idea about the rotation but can relate it to using a rotary tool for cutting drywall. Thanks again.
Great job, nice and clear, with extra points, and not so fast. Some guys think it's a horse race. Anyway you showed me what I was doing wrong (with my older machine), thanks.
Oh man, thanks...just what I needed! Also, good on you to reference using a router. I've been a woodworker for over 45 years...I'll remember this stuff.
EXCELLENT video!!! I've been contemplating getting a plasma cutter and this video fit in perfectly! I think you wonderfully covered all the pertinent information, tips, and things to watch out for. You are a great instructor. (I do hear a bit slower than you talk, so I really had to pay close attention, though...LOL). I have bookmarked the video, so that even if I don't get to acquire a plasma of my own, I can reference this video to help make proper cuts. Well done!
Excellent presention and highly informative. Seems like a much safer process for cutting thick material than oxyfuel and more versatile since you can cut a wider variety of metals.
Very useful information, well explained for a novice (like me) to follow, and logically presented. I fully appreciate your safety guidance. Thank you very much for sharing this. As with welding, I bought a Miller, so will likely do the same for a cutter. Great info.
Wow. If i had of seen this video of yours 20 years earlier, i could very well be as good as you with all your knowledge, if not better than your teachings. Only because others master the trade because of you and how you explain things that are easy to take in and others who do things their way should always learn from their own mistakes. What an awesome crash course on plasma cutting. Thank you so much for for sharing your wisdom. Kindest regards Jac Troughton
Very well done video with a lot of great tips and info. These plasma cutters are the way to go for making parts. Yes, gas or plasma cutting is a skill, and if u don't do it often, u get rusty. I use to be a fit up mig welder 50 years ago, but I haven't cut steel with my oxy/acetylene torch in 22 years. I'll be lucky if I don't catch myself on fire.
7:25 your electric plugs are a nightmare and the biggest risk. I think they are so bad in general in the states. There is no protection, so something can create contact between human and electric plug/pin. Here in germany, those plugs were already forbidden before ww2.
Your too fast cut looked pretty good. What do you think of a strategy of deliberately cutting too fast and then making a second fast pass if necessary?
I'm a recent recipient of a powerplasma 80S, never used one before so i'm trying to figure out stuff. I would have liked to have afforded a unit like the hypertherm but it's just not in my budget. What shade setting on the AD hood should I use? Welding starts at 11 and goes up from there but I suspect that is too dark for the plasma arc I'm working with mild steel at the monet and cutting 1/8th" to 1/4".
In respect to speed (too fast/too slow) I always tell my guys that if you're burning your feet you're going to slow. If the sparks are burning your face you're too fast. Find a speed that throws the sparks slightly to the "rear" of the cut angle.
Great video. Very complete and straightforward. Good thing that you explained that the airports weren’t for airplanes to takeoff from, I wasn’t sure for a moment.
Great video! To the point, well constructed information, no useless filler (comments)! Had to see to the end and your speed of dialogue keeps one's attention. Very well done!
Nice intro into plasma cutting. I never got to that part in school, always wondered about it, but with your demo I think I can conquer it. Cool Demo! 👍
that was nice I need to find a welding school near me, I have learn from family business my uncle but I need to learn more if I want to do better so Thank You for that grate lesson you gave me Thank You so much
Hi, fantastic video. You gave an excellent tutorial on what's involved and how to set up the machine. I had lots of questions on the subject but you answered them all. Thanks from Ireland.
You say the plasma comes out of the torch in a counterclockwise rotation. The direction you were cutting the circles then would be the equivalent of climb cut with a router correct? Which in woodworking does give a better cut but with added risk of the router tending to "run away" as you cut with the rotation. I understand this is fire not a spinning bit, but is my thinking correct? Thanks for a great tutorial!
So you know, a carry-on suitcase sized Powermax 105 will run you $5,000. There's a reason your neighborhood metalworking shop is still using oxy-fuel for most of the "shop-rate" jobs. If the shop doesn't want to teach their new-hires how to best preserve consumables. Two re-fills of oxy-propane will cost as much as a new electrode / nozzle set of consumables, and your new hire can torch $50+ if they short to your workpiece.
I'm new to this whole welding game my bro.. This was a very informative video. I'm looking at building my own larger CNC machine and I was interested in maybe putting a plasma torch on there someday so this gave me a lot to think about. I only began stick welding for the 1st time in 37 years on Sunday. I did a bit of Stick/Acetylene welding when I did Metalwork class back in the day in school aged 11/12/13.. I have to say how much I enjoyed the acetylene welding back then. I bought me one of the cheaper model 2 in 1 stick/Lift Tig welders just to get going again. I have a dedicated Stick welder and the 2 in 1 machine I will keep for Tig welding so I don't have to keep changing out all the time. I love working with wood but I also want to build some things with metal as well so I need to set up an area in my small 16X10 workshop. I could do the welding/plasma work out my back yard but I have an idiot Husky who just loves sticking his nose into anything I'm doing and the lunatic would go up in flames if I did that.. LMAO.. I don't want to kill me Dog so I will hold off on the Plasma cutting for now.. haha! I'm joking of course about killing my Dog with a plasma torch bro but he is an idiot. Anyways I want to say how much I enjoyed ur video bro. U explained stuff a lot more clearly than most do on YT. This is the type of video I like personally. It was cool to hear all that info on the consumables too btw. Thanks for the great content my bro.. Keep these coming bcos I'm like a sponge atm with all this stuff on metalwork too..
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More content like that please
Forgot to mention that the retainer needs to be seated fully to depress the safety switch in the head. Otherwise it won’t run either. Good info from all your videos.
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You, my friend, are an excellent teacher. You remind me of my shop teacher in 8th grade. Yes folks, there was a time when our schools taught the trades as early as 8th grade. You sir, would make fantastic shop teacher. Well presented and easy to follow. Thank thank you. CR
Agreed excellent excellent video. Yeah I do remember back in 8th grade wonderful experience it allowed me to have much more knowledge than just being dumped out after 12 years of school.
Great teacher I agree. In high school I took Drafting, wood shop, auto shop, and i think maybe welding. Anything to keep me away from the hard stuff like algebra. Now at 76 I tinker with something every day.
I'm glad I grew up going to a well funded rural school. Our ag shop building was bigger than the school itself. Was lucky enough to take wood, metal, welding, and drafting along with business classes.
Not that I've used much of those skills after 😶
Even nowadays many (maybe not all) high schools have pretty good shop programs. My friend's sons (twins) built a "baja racer" in the high school auto shop a couple of years ago. For kids that want to do mechanical engineering at college it's a good thing to have experience in building race vehicles or similar. Now at college they get to work with Haas CNC machines and whatnot
@@Richard.Hybels I took Draughting, Electronics, Woodwork, and Metalwork - then went on to algebra, calculus, and physics that led to a survey diploma and later an engineering degree. Those shop courses in grade 8 through 12 really helped in understand the math and physics at university. Now I'm retired and still tinkering as well. :)
No unnecessary talk...no repetition.....no ummmmm...no "you know"?....one of the best to the point, well explained tutorials I have ever seen...great presentation
"even a welder cant mess it up" wow bro, you did us dirty lol
Hahah I came to see who caught that
Can you do video with a cut 50 cheapo plasma. Most of us start with something cheaper like this.
It's exactly the same, only our machines don't have all the bells and whistles the expensive ones do. I just bought (and love) my Lotos LTP5000D, a $379 beastie.
@@ljprep6250 Over a 5yr period of moderate use the Hypertherm will be a cheaper machine to own/operate / besides your consumables are stuck on the ships anchored in the harbor..
@@SegoMan I just checked the prices and have to disagree with you. I could buy 3 Lotos units and 100 consumables sets for that price. $379 vs $1,600+ is a BIG gap. And those consumables could be airlifted to me. ;)
@@ljprep6250 Your cutting cost will be cheaper with Hypertherm and the job you save may be yours, I own 3 of them.
@@SegoMan Perhaps on a commercial basis, the Hypertherm would be the way to go, but I'm retired. My cutting costs so far are much lower with the Lotos.
Great intro to plasma cutting. You touched on the electrocution risks but probably worth mentioning that plasma cutters have a much higher operating voltage than a welder has, hence the greater care needed to avoid getting zapped.
This video is one of the BEST I've ever seen on this topic. Three weeks of trade-school didn't cover this material half as well, plus it was boring tedious and expensive as hell. THIS GUY, on the other hand, knows his shit and delivers all the crucial knowledge concisely. THANK YOU!
It's what Marines do.
Hot dang! I've been using my plasma cutter wrong and always get a bevel edge that drives me crazy thinking my unit was a POS! Looking forward to try your techniques. I had no idea travel speed caused the bevel, nor did I know about the CCW swirl. I even tried cutting at an angle to get a straight edge to no avail. Thanks for teaching this old dog some new tricks.
Bought a cheap plasma cutter to learn on and do a couple small jobs I've been putting off, this was just the video to get me started. Thanks! I have a feeling I'm going to end up putting more time into this and moving up to a better cutter once I get the hang of it, this looks like it's going to actually be more fun than work!
I don't even remember my manual saying anything about cut direction. Great thing to know.
Can you slightly grind the tip of the nozzle or electrode to flatten it out a little and pollish it up some to get a little more life out of it or if you get caught on a job with no new tips? Obviously I wouldn't do it many times or let it get too thin.... Interested to hear your response. Thanks for all the good teaching; been a sub for a while now. Clay
You are the first one I've heard mention hexavalent chromium from stainless, so thanks!
Great job teaching on these videos - much appreciated.
Let's not forget to remind the kids of the dangers of hot cutting or welding on anything galvanized as well!
@@jamesbond2472 long story short, you shouldn't be eating or breathing any heavy metals if you can avoid it.
Even a welder cant mess it up, but I guarantee a mechanic can. I got my plasma free from a mechanic because it was" broken". After a trigger failure he put a non pilot replacement gun on a pilot machine.
One way to judge your cut speed. Divide the recommended speed by 60 ( seconds per min.) . Multiply that by length of cut and do the “ one Mississippi” count. If you're a novice like me, it helped. And thanks for a great tutorial. I was not aware that torch parts were amp specific. Or I forgot.
At my old job me and another welder found a hypertherm powermax 150 collecting dust and cobwebs in the corner of the shop. We tried to convince our boss about investing in a pipe saddle to cut and bevel pipe, instead of being cut by a saw then machining the bevels. At first they didnt believe us (and possibly thought we didnt know what we were talking about) well 5 weeks later they bought it and they couldnt get enough of it. Just goes to show you that some conpanies do not know what they have and dont realize how knowledgeable their welders are.
Ruben, what is a pipe saddle? I don't know a damn thing about competent welding..... 😢
Worker satisfaction is valuable to a firm. Workers designing the assembly line lead to worker satisfaction. Having friends working on the assembly line leads to worker satisfaction because they look forward to going to work. These are the findings of the Hawthorn and Ford studies. Firms ignore these findings at their own risk.
@@aguilayserpiente
Yeah but that of thinking matters to professional tradesmen, ethical people care about the job they are doing.
The modern neocon/neolib, supply side thinking, corporate bigwhig is not that person., they care about personal advancement & enrichment and "cheat to win, cheat your employees &, cheat the customer" is always their first choice.
Take the rampant use in recent years of TARP money spent by companies buying back their own company stock.
This is what many C.E.O.s decided to do because C.E.O.s compensation packages are tied to stock performance and this drove up share price which earned those C.E.O.s more money and increased increased the C.E.O. voting powers in board votes.
None of this benefited employees, consumers or, shareholders, it didn't address any possible real problems the companies could be experiencing, it didn't do anything but spend a bunch of negative interest government loan money on inflating C.E.O. pay....... That is the mind of the Captain's of industry and as long as they can make enough profits for the owner class to live there lives if opulence & excess than worker happiness in not a thing corporate ameirca cares about.
Executive greed and self service soon leads to company collapse. Good for them and disastrous for everyone else including the stockholders that do not bail out in time.
The same goes for ANY JOB. Try working for he US Government😝. Talk about a bunch of empty suits with mammoth egos. It takes whatever school to get hired but beyond that it’s all how brown your nose is.
The Landscape foreman at a federal prison I worked at told me a great one that just happened to him. The warden summoned him on a Monday morning matter of great concern. He was all worked up because the new trees they’d planted earlier in the year looked like they were dying . Something had to be done immediately! The foreman said he said he’d get right on it with the inmate crew. He told me “ how in hell could I tell him that a cold snap September in the Adirondack mountains made the trees go dormant”? I agreed, dummer than a boot considering that useless warden had been there for 3-4 years already🙄.
I've barely ran a plasma cutter at all so this was very helpful. Great stuff again. Thanks!
"Gonna tear that orifice up..."
Yeah, I'm 12...I laughed.
I’m 40 and I laughed.
This was literally the most informative video I have ever watched.
Something I've learned using my hyperthermia 30xp is always have a smooth surface to drag the torch on. Wether it's mill scale painted or bare metal. Trying to drag over rusted metal even if it's light can effect cut quality due to the extra friction causing the nozzle to skip.
Rusty old diamond plate is a bear.
@@ljprep6250 Flip it upside down and use a straight edge with a drag shield.
@@SegoMan I couldn't do that to dismantle the old truck utility body, but I can clean it up that way, now that I have access. Thx.
@@ljprep6250 Got it!
The straight edges with a drag shield is sure quick. it can be used on top of the diamonds with a little practice.
Man I don’t tell people what to do very often but you need to be a high school shop teacher! Your instructions are absolutely perfect clear and concise. Zero boring bill shit.
Bravo
Love your channel! It’s helped me so much while building our container house 😊🙌🔥🛠
I’m 50 years old and y’all keep teaching me new things! Your awesome, keep it up
I’m an old dog. You’re teaching me some new tricks! New to plasma and had no idea about cleaner edge of cut on the right side. Great info, I learned more in this one vid than in several others combined. Looking forward to seeing more of your tutorials. Keep it up.
Excellent informational lesson, thankyou for sharing. Waiting to get a cheap chinese 50 plasma cutter from ebay, hope it works ok. Become more experienced, up grade better quality cutter. 👍🏻👌🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🖐 🇦🇺
I have a cheap old unit and while its under 50 amps it works very well for what im doing u will love just having it and question why u never bought one before
@@travistroms930 thats encouraging news, thankyou.
Thanks for the vid. Very helpful. I have never been trained in plasma, but just used my oxy rig for everything for years, but I want to try to get a plasma cutter and this helps me understand the settings and consumables. The little nuances of knowledge like the cut swirl is gold. Thanks again.
Thank you for the great video. Very instructional to a newbie like me. If it wasn’t for folks like you and your team many of us might be too intimidated to try new things. The information you provide is greatly appreciated.
good vid Jason , you are every bit as good as Bob as a teacher and I di like your style, Like me Bob is just older with a tad more experience of age
, again your are very good at teaching and getting the message across to all levels of experience, keep up the great work.
I'm doing apprentice plumbing and just finished 1st year at technical college in Calgary, Canada. I like your videos because they explain everything I need to know about cutting/welding for class. Thanks.
I like the video. You do a good job explaining the things we need to know and not dragging on things we don’t need to know. Seen a lot of fabricating videos , this is the first one I’ve subscribed to.
@21:10 in this case it should have been; “make your next CUT, better than your last!” 🤪 but joking to the side, thanks for your clear explanation. Do you have lighter (50A) everlast at the shop? Would like to see you practice on one of those. More hobby market level.
Great video . But keep in mind you should start at 105 amps and bring the amperage lower until you find the lowest amperage needed to cut that size material . That will increase consumable life and it should give the best cut quality . You never mentioned that the PowerMax 105 is a 3 phase ( 220/460 volt ) machine only . And if you don't have 3 phase Hypertherm make smaller single phase machine . ( the 125 is 3 phase 460 volt only ) . I say this because the company I work for has 3 105s and two 85s . We would have gone for the 125 but the voltage is an issues . These are used in the field mostly . We did have have a HPR 260 , then traded up to a HPR400XD . Sold those and now have a XPR300 . So I am a bit familiar with Hypertherm and their products . I will say this If you are a professional spend the extra money they are truly the best you can buy .
Even a welder can't mess it up... lmao..
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Hold my torch
Hello Jason, great intro to Plasma cutting!
Good that you also mentioned, at the end of the video, the possibility to use Plasma in combination with CNC, where it really shines :) I also have a Hypertherm Powermax and I am very happy with it.
Since you talked about electrode negative/positive. I like to keep in mind that electrons - i.e. the negative "balls" in the atom grid - come out of the negative (hence minus) electrode and wander through the conductive material to the positive electrode (being positive attracts a lot of things).
For those interested, the little electrons take it easy and wander relatively slow, e.g. in a 1 mm² copper wire and at 1 Ampere the speed of the electrons is just around 0,08 mm/sec. In Jason's case, he used 105 A (=> electrons speed up by 105, versus 1 Ampere) and a 4AWG (?) ground clamp (4AWG = 21.2 mm², => electrons slow down by 1/ 21.2). Thus, the speed of the electrons is about 0.4 mm/sec (105/21.2 => 5 times faster). At a cutting speed of 94 ipm, Jason was actually cutting 100 times faster than the electrons were travelling through the copper ground lead :)
Now, tell me that electrical stuff is no fun :)
If I only knew or was taught these facts early, I may have saved myself from having to jump trades cuz I hated welding cuz the teacher was jus awful. Everyone is different, therefore we learn & may teach differently. Send me to the structural basics of reinforcing & strengthening.
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The local HS just junked out a 24" Delta planer because it had a weird vibration (they kind ran the deck into the cutting head LoL)
Wow! This was my "I know plasma" matrix moment. You're a great teacher, thank you for sharing all that experience so clearly.
Great tips as always! I work in my home shop so I cut over a metal 55gal drum that I turned into a safe plasma cutting table with water in the bottom. Added 1/8” x 1.5” flat bar every inch cut to length! Took about 30’ of the flat stock! Works fantastic!
It's prolly alright, but water and a plasma cutter, is that safe?
Seen tons of crap videos about plasma cutters but this one is great!! Its refreshing to hear someone who knows what they are talking about and has useful information! Thank you!
Great job really covered what a person needs to get started, thank you.
Great vid...I'm new to welding and fabrication but watching your tutorials has taught me so much and given me the confidence to pull the trigger and build it...whatever it is...
I'm a finishing carpenter by trade but always loved metal work..thanks to you and others I'm now doing it.
God bless you and your family
All the best for 2023
WQow, a ton of information for free! I feel like I have just taken a master class! Thank you so very much for posting this!
Personally recommend a desiccant air dryer even refrigerated isnt enough sometimes
Great instructor. If you work by yourself, it may be hard to see the angle of the of the spark (too slow/fast) so showing the beveled piece will help you determine what was not right. Great job explaining the results of the cut.
Jason dont give up making videos man you do a good job elaborating on topics really enjoy when you put a new video out because I learn a lot even with things I'm knowledgeable with thanks again good video
Good video, covers the basics for a beginner like me, with no time wasted on unneccesaries. This helped me a great deal getting better cuts from my hobby machine.
now only if someone came up with a fume extractor gun for plasma cutting like they have for gmaw
Instructions unclear....plasma gun welded to workpiece..... Workpiece welded to table.... Rubbish under table caught fire and factory burned down..... Am officially unemployed from Monday..... Anyone need a carpenter????
This had so much great information. I need way more practice using a plasma. They are so useful & vleaner then Oxyfuel. Thanks for this video & keep up the great work gang
I really appreciate your details ,im a plasma newbie with experience of wielding.i might have known half of what you mentioned, just enough to get into trouble:) Thanks man.
Excellent video. Really excited about having the opportunity to work with one of these later on this year. Excellent instruction as the host was very thorough and knowledgeable. Thanks.
Great video!!! I'm about to unbox and learn to use my Thermal Dynamics 60i.
I laughed at, "Even a welder can't mess it up."
Very very good explanation, you guys are sooo professional on all your video. Bravo! You are THE welding channel to watch and learn the right way from competency to security. Many thanks from Canada!
Thank you. I have never had the opportunity to use a plasma cutter, only watched them being used. I knew there was a lot to them but had no idea it was that much. I'm glad you educated me because I can make a much better informed decision about buying one and avoid getting discouraged while trying to learn to use it. I had no idea about the rotation but can relate it to using a rotary tool for cutting drywall. Thanks again.
Very cool video mate, informative, detailed and easy to understand. Thanks brother! 9/10! Liked, shared and subscribed! Cheers
Great job, nice and clear, with extra points, and not so fast. Some guys think it's a horse race. Anyway you showed me what I was doing wrong (with my older machine), thanks.
Thanks for doing this, I really appreciate the safety guidance. You all are always very knowledgeable and adding a touch of humor. God bless you all
You are a damn good instructor. Awesome relevant info at a great pace. You taught me more in this video than anybody I have ever encountered. So cool.
I've been looking at buying a Plasma Cutter for my garage and wondering different things, this vidoe sure answered a lot of my questions. Thanks
Oh man, thanks...just what I needed! Also, good on you to reference using a router. I've been a woodworker for over 45 years...I'll remember this stuff.
I'm just getting into tearing down electrical transformer substations, and I have no doubt this tutorial will be very helpful to me. Thanks, brother!
EXCELLENT video!!! I've been contemplating getting a plasma cutter and this video fit in perfectly! I think you wonderfully covered all the pertinent information, tips, and things to watch out for. You are a great instructor. (I do hear a bit slower than you talk, so I really had to pay close attention, though...LOL). I have bookmarked the video, so that even if I don't get to acquire a plasma of my own, I can reference this video to help make proper cuts. Well done!
Excellent presention and highly informative. Seems like a much safer process for cutting thick material than oxyfuel and more versatile since you can cut a wider variety of metals.
Thanks for sharing. Great information. Hope Bob is doing well.
Well done, sir! Amazing how little things hugely affect the cut quality.
Could you make a video on different ways to make a j groove and u groove...thanks for this video btw. I always look forward to the videos
Very useful information, well explained for a novice (like me) to follow, and logically presented. I fully appreciate your safety guidance. Thank you very much for sharing this. As with welding, I bought a Miller, so will likely do the same for a cutter. Great info.
Wow. If i had of seen this video of yours 20 years earlier, i could very well be as good as you with all your knowledge, if not better than your teachings. Only because others master the trade because of you and how you explain things that are easy to take in and others who do things their way should always learn from their own mistakes. What an awesome crash course on plasma cutting. Thank you so much for for sharing your wisdom.
Kindest regards Jac Troughton
Very well done video with a lot of great tips and info. These plasma cutters are the way to go for making parts. Yes, gas or plasma cutting is a skill, and if u don't do it often, u get rusty. I use to be a fit up mig welder 50 years ago, but I haven't cut steel with my oxy/acetylene torch in 22 years. I'll be lucky if I don't catch myself on fire.
Great tutorial, thanks so much. 👍🏻👍🏻 I just bought my first plasma cutter and this video was really helpful.
Thank you for taking the time to make this my friend.
Much appreciated.👍🐺👍
Flawless Victory! Excellent Tutorial.Feeling confident about the plasma cutting job and welding job on my car.
7:25 your electric plugs are a nightmare and the biggest risk. I think they are so bad in general in the states. There is no protection, so something can create contact between human and electric plug/pin. Here in germany, those plugs were already forbidden before ww2.
Your too fast cut looked pretty good. What do you think of a strategy of deliberately cutting too fast and then making a second fast pass if necessary?
Thank you for the info. I didn't know about the rotation (direction) of travel vs the piece that you were keeping. The router was a good analogy.
I'm a recent recipient of a powerplasma 80S, never used one before so i'm trying to figure out stuff. I would have liked to have afforded a unit like the hypertherm but it's just not in my budget. What shade setting on the AD hood should I use? Welding starts at 11 and goes up from there but I suspect that is too dark for the plasma arc
I'm working with mild steel at the monet and cutting 1/8th" to 1/4".
In respect to speed (too fast/too slow) I always tell my guys that if you're burning your feet you're going to slow. If the sparks are burning your face you're too fast. Find a speed that throws the sparks slightly to the "rear" of the cut angle.
Yes, dang I learned alot. Perfect teaching rythem for a plasma dummy like me. 👍
Great tips, Thanks! I just purchased one, so this video will be useful. 😁
Lots of info to process, but the explanations were great and novice-friendly. I subscribed and liked it...Thanks for that... Be well...
Great video. Very complete and straightforward. Good thing that you explained that the airports weren’t for airplanes to takeoff from, I wasn’t sure for a moment.
Great video! To the point, well constructed information, no useless filler (comments)! Had to see to the end and your speed of dialogue keeps one's attention. Very well done!
This tutorial video is brilliant! Thank you for making it. I learned a lot.
Awesome Plasma Tutorial, especially on circle/hole cutting
I used a plasma cutter for the first time the other day at work
And you can cut fiberglass just use aluminum tape on it
Give it a try
You can cut a lot of things. I opened up a cardboard box from amazon with aluminum tape and my plasma cutter.
Why the worker does get shocked if it oprats at high voltage connected with metal?
Nice intro into plasma cutting. I never got to that part in school, always wondered about it, but with your demo I think I can conquer it. Cool Demo! 👍
its right to check for anything flammable and remove it. what about those can on top of the shelf?
10Mbowman that’s what I was thinking
Your explanations are so simple to understand. Much appreciated!!
Hypertherm 105! That’s a $5,000 unit. And it shows.
Excellent video. Lots of great information and detail, delivered clearly, QUICKLY and to the point.
that was nice I need to find a welding school near me, I have learn from family business my uncle but I need to learn more if I want to do better so Thank You for that grate lesson you gave me Thank You so much
6:15 good thing he made it clear
Closest thing to a lightsaber
Hi, fantastic video. You gave an excellent tutorial on what's involved and how to set up the machine. I had lots of questions on the subject but you answered them all. Thanks from Ireland.
Great presentation buddy. After using my plasma cutter I have learned some entry level info from you.
Now 2022.Hypertherm plazma cut powermax 65,85A in India from Odisha
You say the plasma comes out of the torch in a counterclockwise rotation. The direction you were cutting the circles then would be the equivalent of climb cut with a router correct? Which in woodworking does give a better cut but with added risk of the router tending to "run away" as you cut with the rotation. I understand this is fire not a spinning bit, but is my thinking correct? Thanks for a great tutorial!
Plasma cutters exist, but what about phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range?
So you know, a carry-on suitcase sized Powermax 105 will run you $5,000.
There's a reason your neighborhood metalworking shop is still using oxy-fuel for most of the "shop-rate" jobs.
If the shop doesn't want to teach their new-hires how to best preserve consumables. Two re-fills of oxy-propane will cost as much as a new electrode / nozzle set of consumables, and your new hire can torch $50+ if they short to your workpiece.
I'm new to this whole welding game my bro.. This was a very informative video. I'm looking at building my own larger CNC machine and I was interested in maybe putting a plasma torch on there someday so this gave me a lot to think about. I only began stick welding for the 1st time in 37 years on Sunday. I did a bit of Stick/Acetylene welding when I did Metalwork class back in the day in school aged 11/12/13..
I have to say how much I enjoyed the acetylene welding back then.
I bought me one of the cheaper model 2 in 1 stick/Lift Tig welders just to get going again. I have a dedicated Stick welder and the 2 in 1 machine I will keep for Tig welding so I don't have to keep changing out all the time.
I love working with wood but I also want to build some things with metal as well so I need to set up an area in my small 16X10 workshop. I could do the welding/plasma work out my back yard but I have an idiot Husky who just loves sticking his nose into anything I'm doing and the lunatic would go up in flames if I did that.. LMAO..
I don't want to kill me Dog so I will hold off on the Plasma cutting for now.. haha! I'm joking of course about killing my Dog with a plasma torch bro but he is an idiot.
Anyways I want to say how much I enjoyed ur video bro. U explained stuff a lot more clearly than most do on YT. This is the type of video I like personally. It was cool to hear all that info on the consumables too btw.
Thanks for the great content my bro.. Keep these coming bcos I'm like a sponge atm with all this stuff on metalwork too..
Nothing wrong with calling it a ground clamp. Ground is an arbitrary reference point. Grounds need not be negative, they can be positive as well.