welcome back to Steve Robb reviews today I can go a little bit of a real on my Miller plasma cutter
it's the 6:25 spectrum guys I've had this for over 20 years and it's never once caused me a
problem it's been flawless all these years just love the Miller product and of course my welder
here is the lincoln and they're both 240 volts i've got a special project on the goal here a
little bit of an invention that i'm trying out because i did I did show when I was starting to
build my deck I got a deck series going on where it's gonna turn into a garden shed right now it's
a deck but yeah we're working on that and I showed in the beginning there how I had to pull both the
boards together using you know some high-powered strength and a block and tackle to you know to
get the board's pressed together because a lot of times the wood especially pressure-treated wood
you leave it out in the Sun for a couple hours and it starts a dogleg on you know you try to
frame something together and you have to actually use mechanical force to get it back together and
that's what I've done and I've had so many problems over the years doing that and I've
tried long bars and clamps and everything else try something different here I'm gonna invent
this myself it's my idea not too sure if it's going to work or not but right now all we have
in the backyard is the deck soon it's going to be a garden shed and when I'm framing it up I'm
for sure gonna run into a couple of studs that I have to actually use some mechanical force to pull
them back together so this what I'm going to do is I'm going to show you what I got going over here
on the table and I'm gonna explain a little bit about the plasma cutter - well I got everything
set up here and what I like to start off with first is I just cut some of this I think this
is actually well casing I think it's around five sixteenths thick and I cut at five inches long
and I have a hole bunch of this stuff so I thought I'd might as well use this because I think this is
going to be a good choice and we'll see how this works out but as you can see here I've got I got
this cardboard guys I bought this stuff it's like 1/8 cardboard comes in a four by eight sheet many
many many years ago and I've been using this my plasma cutter for many years and I'll show you
some examples here like you could see this one here and I got all the different sizes so what I
do is you know like this is 5/8 you know so what I do is I just use my hole saw and I cut out all the
different shapes and the whole idea behind this is the plasma cutter itself the tip well it just
rides along the inside here because if you take a look at the end there I'll just try and show
you you could see where the distance between the outside right here and the center is 3/16 so you
have to measure your tip you know and see you know what the distance is from the outside to
the inside so whenever I measure something I make sure that I allow for that 3/16 so if you take a
look at the this piece here this is going to go over top the two-by-four stud so I want one and
a half from side to side but then I got the 3/16 that this will ride along so I got 3/16 here at
316 Center which is 3/8 so I had to add 3/8 to one and a half and then this is going to be three and
a quarter from here to here and then I added 3/16 for this piece here and this is a rough idea it's
a lot easier than trying to do it by hand and it only takes a couple of seconds what I did is they
just ripped this out on the table saw and then I just got my exacto knife I put a couple of scar
marks across both sides and just snaps off so it's easy to work with and on the plasma cutter here a
lot of people if you're curious you see there's outside lines outside holes here well that's
where the air compressor air comes in and I have a dryer on the back of my plasma cutter that keeps
the air dry and the electricity comes through here almost like an arc welder and it blows the
slag and everything away now this one here I have used up to three quarters of an inch steel so it
does work terrific and you know these are quite expensive but you know what it sure beats using
a grinder with a cut-off disc and you know that kind of stuff so let's get to cutting this up and
I'll show you exactly what this is going to be for at the end because it's kind of hard to to
show you right now but hopefully as we go along you'll see what I'm doing so let's take it over
to the workbench and let's cut this out right here now I'm gonna put it on one side I'm going to turn
it over and do the same on the other so let's get to it well for those that are wondering what kind
of eyewear use for a plasma cutter they do make a shield and that's what I use is the shield and
this is the proper one for it and that's what I like to use so what I'll do is I'll assume
him now and we'll see how this does no I don't expect it to cut exactly on the line and I know
I'm gonna have to do a little bit of trimming with my grinder but let's get to it let's see how this
works out okay you ready now it does use quite a bit of air from your air compressor so you will
hear the air compressor most likely kick on before I finished cutting this so let's get door here
well here's the one side here and guys I just eyeballed it roughly where the other side was
that's about it and I'll stick her in the vise and let's do this one here now too
there we go well here we go here here's the second one that I haven't done yet I'm not gonna show you
that one I'm just gonna show you the other one and this is it here guys now as you could see I did
have to put my grinder on it and just make sure it fit and this is the this is the piece right
here and you could see it's only just a little bit burnt and it's good enough to do the second piece
and this is the whole idea here guys this is going to fit over top like this and we're going to get
to the next part and I hope you can see what I'm doing here but I'm gonna have to weld a piece from
here over to here and I don't know if I'm gonna use this or use this or use something else but
the next time you're going to see this we're gonna be over on the welding table again and we're gonna
be welding some more okay guys Plan B just in case you guys wanted to know what a plasma cutter looks
like when it makes a cut and just show you right here this is a good example here of the cut that
it makes and I think it's pretty good now you can see there's a little bit of dross here but
besides that you just put the chipping hammer falls right off Plan B coming up okay I was
doing some ciphering this is how we do ciphering up here okay so if you take a look here one of
three quarters that's the middle of a 2x4 and I'm going to be using this two by fours and two
by sixes two and three quarters you see them two lines that are going all the way down see right
in the middle well that's our goal for today here we go guys there you go right there now what does
that mean to you absolutely nothing right but take a look at that you see the gap underneath there I
think that gap is gonna work in my favor now I had a couple of these clamps here or closed or
whatever these things are called but this is what I'm figuring on doing guys yeah this one gonna do
is okay are you ready I'm gonna stab that thing in there well okay well you got a better idea
what's going on here you see that red line well just follow a grater okay what I'm gonna do is
I'm gonna bolt that down there I'm gonna bolt that right on there save me from welding it and I think
that'll be fine now it's not sitting right flush there but I can just bend them years over and I
think that should be fine and I'll bolt that right on there let's come back when that thing's on and
let's take a look well she's all done I tell you what it's pretty slick check this out guys
there you go right there fits on there nice and I'll show you on the bottom there I got a double
knotted and I think this will work great and the whole idea behind this is a lot of times I got a
2x4 say stretching say 12 feet or whatever and I got all my studs running this way and you'll get
a board that's kind of worked on you so now I can put one of these on it's good for a 2x4 or 2x6 and
put one on the other end and then put my you know come along or ratchet strap or whatever you like
in between the two hook onto the hooks and just crank her down and it'll pull this right in and
I think that's gonna work great the only other problem I have over the years in construction
is even your studs you leave a stud out you know a friendly link to time in between your two main
studs and yeah they twist on you and they tilt like this so I'm thinking to make another one in
the future of how to straighten out a stud you know this one here is only for pulling the two
ends together and that'll be another challenge I hope you like this I think it's a pretty good
idea I mean really when you think about it I just took the center between halfway of a two-by-four
and halfway over two by six and put best right in the center hook on here pull on both ends and you
know what it's not it's not everything I mean you know something that I can just like hang up
on the rafters I am going to paint these all and last me a lifetime and I don't really think just
guys think you could bend that I don't think that I'm bending that either because you know
a shape that's bent like this in the first place it's got a lot of power and you don't really need
that much power to pull a couple of em boards in together and I think it's a good idea these guys
let me know in the comments below what you think whether this is a good idea or not but I'm gonna
be trying to note I guarantee you I'm gonna have some that are a little bit warped and we'll try
it out I'll put a link down below for the series on me making this garden shed yous guys can take
a look and see what I've been doing before and what you're going to see in the future so thanks
for joining me here today if you haven't seen this channel quite welcome to subscribe come
back again and let's have some more fun and you know what the brain sticking right now and I'm
thinking about something to straighten out the 2x4 studs to stay tuned for that cheers guys