You guys have changed my frickin’ brain chemistry, damn you all (with love). Cutting wood is cool. Cutting aluminium is cooler. Now I’m chasing steel.
Looked at the JDGarage site from the “Neat!” thread which says you guys in the US can get CNC-compatible plasmas for $170 (!!) Anything I can find around that price here is HF start. With all the horrible EMI problems that causes.
Seems like some people on here have successfully used HF start machines, but after a lot of work fighting the EMI hydra. Talk me out of trying that and into buying a non-HF start plasma, please. (It does rather take the project out of ‘screw it why not’ price range though)
Bought a “Hitbox HBC45II” which claims to be low-frequency pilot arc and all that goodness. At £99 even if it is no good for CNC I’ll probably keep it around.
Well. I actually bought two, because, um
Order has gone through, let’s see if they fulfil it…
Just looked it up on aliexpress, $170 USD with very fast, free shipping, for my location, it says 1-5 days.
AJ, this is a little off topic but when you receive it, how about giving us a little review?
Assuming I do receive it (I should get at least one of the two!), certainly, though it’ll be my first plasma so I don’t really have much of a frame of reference for how good it is relative to other no name machines
(It does rather take the project out of ‘screw it why not’ price range though)
Order has gone through, let’s see if they fulfil it…
