Plasma cutter metal thickness

Hey… how thick a material does the plasma cam handle? looking to do maybe .5 inch or maybe even .75 inch thick materials if it will do it…

Max would be 1/2" with less than desirable results. 3/8 is ok…
Supposedly if you make a hole in the thicker material for a starting point, it will handle is ok. I have not tried it. .75 is going to be really heavy material just to handle.

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May need to change tips to cut that thick.

Could it be cut with the hand-held cutter?

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No, the handheld cutter on loan has a small capacity.

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On that note I wish someone would get a hypertherm 45 handheld on an agenda…

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I agree. This saves on consumables and if the Plasmacam unit goes down, we can switch until unit is repaired keeping the uptime on the big big machine.

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The Hypertherm 45 (xp) (~$1900$2,000 with torch) appears to be capable of using the same consumables as the Powermax 1000’s Duramax Retrofit Torch:


From here

and

from here

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