Hello Everyone,
Here are some items that i made to try and teach myself how to heat treat steel, These are some of my first attempts, Let me know what you think.
Fishes
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Re: Fishes
Looks fantastic! What set up are you using? machine /tips/speeds/amps?
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Re: Fishes
My table is a Multicam 1000 5'x20', plasma cutter is a Hypertherm powermax 1000, I made the smallfish out of 16ga hot rolled and the large one out of 14ga hotrolled. I used 40amp tips and nozzles not the fine cut. I cut the 16ga at about 30 amps and the 14ga at 40amps. My multicam has preset speeds for the gauge of metal you are using so i just set my material type, adjust my amps and air pressure on my plasma cutter to the best of my ability and let it fly.
I never have had any training on the table or my design software so I have pretty much taught myself but I still dont know alot of the finer details to really dial it in for high quality cuts. Needless to say there was grinding envolved.
I never have had any training on the table or my design software so I have pretty much taught myself but I still dont know alot of the finer details to really dial it in for high quality cuts. Needless to say there was grinding envolved.
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Re: Fishes
Thats nice work.Jim
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Re: Fishes
Looks really good. Hate to see what you can do when you really figure it out!!! LOL
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Re: Fishes
Thanks for the compliments everyone. Coming from you all that means something.