He WAS selling these plans for about $20. I guess he changed his mind, looks pretty cool and lord knows most of us already have or can get these parts. MUST HAVE THIS.

Posted at 11:38 am on Jan 6th, 2009 by Eric

this is one of those posts that has the potential to do a great deal of creative damage. Nothing within my garage is safe anymore. Thanks for the post!!!

Posted at 12:05 pm on Jan 6th, 2009 by polymath

Best thing I have seen in a long time. This is my kind of hack!

Posted at 12:09 pm on Jan 6th, 2009 by xamosx

This is very cool, all it needs is a dual axis computer controlled thing. Since it is all homebrew it would be easy to adapt to that.

Posted at 1:11 pm on Jan 6th, 2009 by mike c

*YEE GODS!!!*
That thing needs a cover on it. That looks just plain dangerous. Extremely cool but extremely dangerous. Just imagine your surprise if you back into that setup while working.

Posted at 1:15 pm on Jan 6th, 2009 by Hal Hockersmith

Cool i’ll use it to light my bong.

Posted at 1:55 pm on Jan 6th, 2009 by Comedy Blog

Just a word of warning, these are a hell of alot more dangerous than mot spot welders and most other diy welding equipment.

Found a word of warning from this guy in the comments on a spot welder instructable:
http://www.caringbridge.org/cb/viewMyStory.do?method=executeInit

Posted at 2:59 pm on Jan 6th, 2009 by Wolf

Just be careful not to vent plasma through the secondary feed vents. it upsets the drive.

just sayin’

Posted at 7:03 pm on Jan 6th, 2009 by strider_mt2k

@Comedy Blog and iiCrItAkKaLzZzXbL

high or not, neither of you are funny. leave.

Posted at 8:08 pm on Jan 6th, 2009 by germanjmg

This set of plans has been around for sometime now on Yahoo groups. Although you have to now buy the plans to get to the private section. It was publicaly viewable at one time.

At least he is not using the water resistor like the first implementations used. This way is still very dangerous as you can come in contact with the hot side of your work and ground very easily and get a 400+ Volt DC shock.

This is because most modern devices like this use a isolation transformer which is center tapped to ground.

Posted at 9:08 pm on Jan 6th, 2009 by Aviator747

This is the best hack I’ve seen a in a long time, I have all but about 3 parts + the gun to get this made i’m very tempted to make one of these! This is the kind of stuff I like to see

Posted at 9:35 pm on Jan 6th, 2009 by Paul

Although this is an excellent project, it’s definitely not for the hobbyist. i wouldn’t recommend trying this unless you already have a good deal of experience with plasma cutters and high voltage projects. there are about a dozen ways to kill yourself building and operating one of these things.

Posted at 11:29 pm on Jan 6th, 2009 by amk

There is a 40A plasma cutter on ebay for $300 that I think I would take over this death trap.

But still very cool to know that it requires relatively few and common parts (as he points out).

Posted at 11:56 pm on Jan 6th, 2009 by jproach

You can buy plasma cutters for the $300.00 in parts you need.

I guess if you had a nice stockpile of freebies around it would be a good idea, or if you are trapped in a electrical/electronic wearhouse and needto cut your way out you could build one.

I’ll just buy one, you can get really good ones used for around $150-$350 if you look hard enough.

Posted at 7:41 am on Jan 7th, 2009 by fartface

I love the smell of vapourised steel in the mornings!

Posted at 9:24 am on Jan 7th, 2009 by grovenstien

The link provided says removed by author.

Posted at 11:26 am on Jan 23rd, 2009 by chris

If someone downloaded the pdf of this guide before it was taken down, could you please upload it to some file sharing web site and post the link here?
Thanks

Posted at 10:57 am on Feb 14th, 2009 by Anonymous

I know these are old post but this is my cutter the Plasanator.
What you are looking at is the cutter on a test rig.
I latter enclosed it into a box.
I have up dated it alot and I even have a working lab unit foresale on ebay at this link.
Thanks for all the great feed back. Joe
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130343366476

Posted at 10:50 pm on Nov 9th, 2009 by Joe