[Shop-talk] Need to buy a plasma cutter for school

[hillman at planet-torque.com (David Hillman)]

On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, David C. wrote:
> My Tech Ed director needs to spend some money this summer and I can use a new 
> plasma cutter for my welding lab.  I can probably spend $1000-1500 or so, 
> would prefer single phase 230, but have 3 phase available, and need something 
> that the kids won't be able to destroy for a while. Reasonably priced 
> consumables would be good, too.

    Hypertherm Powermax 30 or 45 ( opposite ends of your price range ).  I 
don't have one, but you will have to look pretty long and hard to find 
people who don't love their Hypertherm plasmas.

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  David Hillman