With technology advancing at a speedy rapidity, it is sometimes astonishing the tools that are actively activity settle to practice in Production. To be else efficient, and to accrual Industry, cutting edge methods and tools are constantly lifetime invented and reinvented. One of these tools, used to chop metal, is recognized as a plasma cutter.
Definition
A plasma cutter is a relatively simple tool that's used for cutting electrically conductive metals, including steel.
Process
A plasma cutter works by using a high voltage arc and a compressed gas. The arc ionizes gases passing through a nozzle. This creates a concentrated arc of plasma at the cutter's tip.
Cutting
Plasma cutters are expensive and ofter require frequent maintenance and part changes. Since they aren't as good on thick metals and cannot be used on non-metals, many manufacturers still prefer traditional, gas cutting torches.
Plasma cutters don't rely on flammable gases. They cut through metals up to 5 times faster than conventional methods, and they only heat the area being cut as the heat is not diffused.
Disadvantages
The contact of the plasma at the tip with the work surface creates a focused area of cutting heat, which will literally melt, then blow out the molten metal. As a result, plasma cutters make clean cuts with less slag created in the process.
