Aluminum sign thickness

TinWhisperer October 5, 2024, 9:47am 8

I cut of bit of quarter and 8th-in aluminum.

Here’s a recent project of quarter inch aluminum. I used 65 amp shielded book settings from the hypertherm manual.

I end up getting very little dross. The most stress I get on the cut is when you’re cutting a line parallel with one of the slats and very close to it.

I actually ran an eighth program the other day where every piece came off and I don’t think there is any cleanup before going through the rollers.

For my aluminum cuts I normally use the 65 amp consumables.

These cuts that aren’t even pulled from the table yet basically zero to dross.

Even have decent cuts on diamond plate.

I’ve had decent results with aluminum. I stick with Hypertherm book settings with a 50% turned down for optimization.

Aluminum is the most fickle to cut consistently.

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