Comments on: Make a plasma cutter

By: alvin

alvin — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 04:23:14 +0000

kind you email me a copy of components and list of material and diagram to make a plasma cutter??? please i beg you…^^

By: ray hawki

ray hawki — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 02:17:21 +0000

i would sure like to purchase a set of plans for this –i tried to build one with another set of plans but the wiring confused me as there are two many junctions–if you will sell me a copy of these please email me how to get them

By: the author.

the author. — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 03:15:02 +0000

This instructable has been removed

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:50:54 +0000

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

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 18:57:22 +0000

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

By: chris

chris — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:26:33 +0000

The link provided says removed by author.

By: grovenstien

grovenstien — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:24:49 +0000

I love the smell of vapourised steel in the mornings!

By: fartface

fartface — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:41:47 +0000

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.

By: jproach

jproach — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:56:53 +0000

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).

By: amk

amk — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:29:21 +0000

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.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:35:06 +0000

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

By: Aviator747

Aviator747 — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:08:36 +0000

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.

By: germanjmg

germanjmg — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:08:46 +0000

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

By: strider_mt2k

strider_mt2k — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:03:54 +0000

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

just sayin’

By: Wolf

Wolf — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:59:48 +0000

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