OK, after reading everything I could online about plasma cutters, talking
to about 5 guys 'in the biz' about them, and sleeping on it, I finally
pulled the trigger on what I think is the best unit.
Here is what I went with...
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Besides hating the color, everything else is a win. (Price, size,
fexiblity, capacity, reveiws.)
I was worried about ordering the consumables, but the website has a great
package of them for next to nothing.
Once I find out if this works well, I'll just buy a ton of them and don't
worry if the company goes away. That way, I should have years of use and
if I can't get more in a decade or so, I'll buy a laser gun or whatever
technology they have then.
I'm not buying the "cuts 3/4" and severes 1" " rating on their website,
but I think it should be good enough for 1/2" FWIW, it was one of the
only ones that I could find all positive reveiws about (there is one
negative one, but it sound like either his unit is bad or he is bad.)
I'll post my findings when I get it if anyone is interested.
Moose
"Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational
being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory." Ralph
Waldo Emerson
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