hey guys Matt for me slow over here
doing another live technical demo and
eastwood garage today is a morning
version so if you guys got your coffee
out watching us a little bit today we're
doing a little tech session on plasma
cutting so I was showing here doing a
quick cut on with the versaclock 60 is
three-quarter inch metal that was
cutting with and I wanted to give you
guys some tips and tricks we get in our
tech line and in our walking customers
that come into a retail store we get
some things that will happen to their
weapons to the plasma cutters of
questions they may have
I want to try and get you guys
information ahead of time so you haven't
watched one of these before we want it
to be as interactive as possible so
Randy it does a lot of our videos here
on the laptop
he's answering questions live to you
guys you may have if you have any uh any
of the heath thinks we should answer on
camera he's going to throw them over to
me I'll answer them live again the topic
today is plasma cutting so we'll
probably covering mainly questions about
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plasma cutting if you haven't if you're
not familiar with plasma cutting what
the process is we have a lot of really
great videos on eastwood channel
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around a lot of great videos on there to
showing how a plasma cutter works i'm
going to get past that and just get into
some trouble shooting with your machine
and some tips to make your teamwork
better or last longer so with your torch
probably the number one thing that I see
is the consumables lot of people don't
realize it but the consumables in the
the plasma torch making sure this isn't
ridiculously hot still
but the consumers and a plasma torch
they go bad or get used up the quickest
this this nozzle here these will go bad
too much except you getting really
really hot splatter on them they can but
they don't go necessarily bad
what you're going to see is the sky
right here let me show you a bad one
the second this is a fresh when i put in
that we were just cutting within the
beginning and so that guy right there
so these two pieces the 1i just held up
in this one are actually what goes bad
probably the most often how long they
will last week we get customers they ask
that and that's to so many variables
that can cause that it's really hard to
say what I will tell you is a couple
things that will make them die a quick
death so on your machine there is air
pressure and there is your amperage for
power on the machine
what will make these die a quick a quick
sudden death is if you turn your air
pressure way down so on this machine
here will get Joe to get in there were
right I was just a little over 60 psi
for our our pressure and so that when
you turn that pressure it's a if you
have an air compressor that is to look
is a I don't know not up to snuff you
could say or or maybe just have your
compressor turn down too low where you
have just the dial right on the machine
turned down too well and you're trying
to cut something thick and you got the
amperage turned way up so right now I
had the Machine pretty much turned all
the way up here comes some pretty heavy
metal there in the beginning and I have
the air pressure about the max what it
what it should be
so if we had that air pressure say down
it like 15 or 10 what it's going to do
is it's just going to burn those tips
right out in a heartbeat very quickly
arm so what you experience when you see
that when that
starts happening or you burn out the tip
it will act as if you have a bad ground
so you'll you'll want to try and start a
narc you here at dancing around inside
the inside a torch but it's just not
striking in art and and you won't be
cutting but you're here something's
going on
first thing to do is take this apart and
take a look at those if you did try and
do that with no air pressure or really
low air pressure and high amperage it's
done for you might as well as changes
Alex you probably burned out and it
happens very quickly quickly and you can
think of the other thing that can happen
and just from general use
I have a tip here do we we did a couple
of cuts with the on some thicker metal
but you can see this hole in the center
there
its egg down a little bit so this is
just normal use of the torch
that's what happens it's going to have
happened much more quickly if you're
doing thicker cutting that's a higher
amperage in the air pressure is higher
because it's just so much more heat the
Ark is just so much hotter and you're
also getting a lot of sweater and heat
from what you're cutting just do the
nature of how thick the metal is that's
going to have that happen if you start
seeing this egg out pretty large you're
going to start seeing your arc is going
to wander it's gonna be hard to follow a
line so if you're cutting something
we're actually gonna cut a shape or
align it's really difficult to hold that
line because the Ark is unstable and
it's either jumping around it's coming
out of that it's coming out of the the
tip here at a weird angle that can cause
that the other you can make these died
pretty quickly now our tips we get often
a lot of times I see questions that come
up on our reviews and things like that
that people ask can you drag the torch
did you do these drag tips so what what
they're asking for itself familiar
can you put this right down the middle
like this and drag it across you need to
be a
little bit above where can you put it
right down on it and drag it right
across the metal the answer is yes you
you can drag these tips and it's not a
problem you can cut with them what you
do it there's nothing wrong with it but
what that does is it kills the
consumables i wanna see twice as fast
but probably twice as fast because
you're just putting that right in the
war zone on that metal it's going to
make these tips where a lot faster
some people like doing that just because
it helps with their accuracy where they
can't get comfortable holding her hand
their hands are armed
I like to try and start by taught by
keeping it either touching or just above
and I'll go across to make the cut but i
usually try and keep it just a little
bit above the metal I don't drag it too
often unless it's something where I'm at
a position or made from wells are i'm
cutting something that's like rusty old
floor pans out and I'm just I can't get
in there so let's drag that the torch
but you just have to realize that these
consumers are going to wear out a lot
faster because of that you're going to
get all the slag and everything that
comes back right onto this tip and it's
going to hang out that whole really fast
so that's what's got what can kill these
really quick you can see on this one
that that was the matching part where
the actual electrode or the electrical
charge is coming out i'm right in the
center that little dot if you start
seeing that divot getting pretty deep
and getting large whatwhat's there isn't
too bad you still get a lot of a fair
amount of life out of this but if you
start seeing a nice little crater going
in there that's when it's probably time
and you're getting that instead market
people i'm having trouble initiating an
arc I would swap one of these out first
and see what it does
this one's easy to tell when it goes bad
because if you see the holes egg powder
is really large it's time to replace it
so that's not that's a couple things
that can they can cause this to go bad
much more quickly
you have any questions at all this
morning and it's early
no we we don't have any questions
what we have got some questions but
they've been fairly easy got better well
thank you guys for answering actually
look the one question was about the air
separator can we flip kanjo flip around
and just show the one that's on the wall
you know I mean don't mind our mops
brooms and brother that's this is our
behind-the-scenes yeah so i'm going to
jump over here so somebody asked what
they wanted to see what we're using here
so there is an adjustable air regulator
right on our plasma cutter which makes
it really nice but you can also have a
separator you can keep are you know you
can have your adjustment on the wall and
have your moisture separator our
machines generally have a moisture
separator built into them as well but
you really need to have something
because you need to have Queen dry air
that's another thing that's going to
cause an ark to be not nearly as stable
is you're going to if you start getting
moisture introducing moisture into the
airline's you're going to start bouncing
around you have trouble starting an arc
it's going to be spending a lot more
when you're making cuts that's going to
be definitely bad so if you have just a
smaller cheaper oil this compressor that
puts out a lot of moisture because it's
running pretty nuts runnin hard to keep
up what you can do is we saw some
last-chance water separators if you
don't want to get involved in buying
their a little costly but they're
totally worth the money the mountain
ones we have a last-chance separators
that basically plug right on your
airline before you plug it into the back
the Machine sacrificial they will only
last for so long but they will separate
a lot of that moisture out before it
gets into your machine what your help
the other thing we sell its really great
for painting but you can use it for the
plasma cutter if you're having problem
with mr. getting the line we sell a
desiccant snake those things are awesome
they work great
i highly suggest you use one of them if
you have a small air compressor if
you're painting using HVLP gun use one
of those but you can also use one of
them for
your plasma cutter same thing you plug
in and it's filled with desiccate it's
going to suck up a good percentage of
that moisture and keep you from having
issues with moisture in the air lines so
researchers keywords on a website will
pop right up
I don't think we put them on the main
page but desiccant snake and a
last-chance air filter
it's like a little black ball that you
plug right on the bottom we use it with
our powder guns pretty often but there
are two good ones
that's a great a great question somebody
had about that so so that was our main
tips that I just wanted to go over with
the Machine the questions that we get
pretty often short and sweet
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you're going to see that possibly this
friday but we're sending the camera crew
out to a local shop though i think i'm
going to be the only one here at so
maybe hard to go live with just me so if
you guys are familiar we've been working
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that is is a little rough and he's
taking something most people throw away
and he's going to turn it into a nice
driver so they've been doing a lot of
live videos working on the car together
and showing you guys real life what
happens when you run into working on
these cars so make sure you check that
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showing some real some real work so
thanks everybody for watching gonna
finish cutting here and i'll catch you
guys later