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Basic tips for using plasma cutters

In the 1980's Plasma cutting emerged as a very effective way to cut sheet metal and plate. The process of plasma cutting consistes of a gas (air, oxygen, indert and others) blown at a high rate of speed out of the torch nozzle, an electrical arc turns some of that gas into plasma. The plasma is not hot enought to melt the metal being cut, often providing a much cleaner cut than typical method of oxyacetylene cutting.

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After searching for highlights from my father’s old Military welding manual, I could not help but be impressed by its thoroughness and simplicity.  Admittedly it covers mostly Oxy Acetylene use, and “electric arc welding procedures”  it does a good job of equipping the new recruit with the basic skills and knowledge for welding in war time, even how to weld crack sensitive armored plating.  In fact it goes into details about how to perform the correct weld in the shop, but then admits that it isn’t likely that armor plating would be replaced in a shop and then gives a “what will work” in th

Part 4 to Musings From A Military Welding Manual I found from 1943.

Now most people know that joint design is critical to a good weld, but even before any technical information is given to welding the the old Military welding manual I found, it covers basic joint designs and weld joint terminology.  Of course, it covers basic designs that were still in use today.  Perhaps a few of them are not as relevant and some new ones have been added, with advancements being made in engineering and  the adaptation of welding processes like

The old Military manual I retrieved from my father’s library on welding seems to pick up speed by introducing Oxy Acetylene in the second section after dealing with basic metal characteristics, metal production and safety.  Oxy-Acetylene has changed relatively little in the years since the second world war, though new Oxy fuels have been introduced such as propane, and propylene, have become reasonably priced heat source alternatives and Plasma cutters have cut into the market as a quicker, less costly method of cutting virtually any metal.  Then Acetylene generators were popular.

Musings From A Military Welding Manual Part 1

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