It had the advantages over traditional metal against metal cutting of producing no metal chips giving accurate cuts and producing a cleaner edge than oxy fuel cutting early plasma cutters were large somewhat slow and expensive and therefore tended to be.
Plasma cutting thin sheet metal.
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Plasma cutting grew out of plasma welding in the 1960s and emerged as a very productive way to cut sheet metal and plate in the 1980s.
Plasma cutting is an effective way to cut thin and thick materials.
Https goo gl frdnss in this episode we will be going over the basics of plasma cutting.
In systems such as the yag laser a fiber laser or a disk laser the laser beams reach the processing head via fiber optic cables.
Hand torches can usually cut up to 38 mm thick steel sheet stronger computer controlled torches can cut up to 150 mm thick steel sheet.
A laser cutting machine for sheet metal consists of three main components.
These specialty consumables are specifically engineered to provide squarer edges tighter tolerances and a narrower kerf on thin metals.
If you use metal shears to cut thin sheet metal such as duct metal it curls and can be difficult to flaten properly.
Finecut consumables are ideal for cutting intricate fine featured shapes out of thin sheet metal.
Since plasma cutters produce a very hot and very localised cone for cutting they are very useful for cutting and welding sheets in curved or angled shapes.
The illustrations are for a small bracket but i have cut 3 foot.
Laser cutting is mainly used to cut medium thin plate and the cutting materials are in a very wide range metal non metal ceramic glass etc.
How to cut thin sheet metal and keep it flat.
A laser beam source a laser beam guide and a processing head focusing optics with a cutting nozzle.