So I have maybe 8 hours tops in last 7 month’s cutting…
I have been down 2 weeks now (real job and life takes over…BUT…) so I was cutting 14ga for a prototype portable pizza oven, cut 10 pcs out of a pc of 4x4 sheet. No issues, worked great at 30amps 120ipm.
Stopped, switched to 3/16 sheet, 45amps and 35ipm
It cut 1pc and at end it looked like consumables went bad…changed them out,tip and electrode looked nasty. It wouldn’t acr, lost voltage alarms etc.
I tried to air fire torch 30 times, nothing. Checked continuity between short trigger leads on torch mount, switch works fine.
Air solenoid works fine.
Any ideas?
Left message and emailed them on Tuesday, no response. Tried calling a few minutes ago ,closed
I need to cut 6 more pcs…this sucks…550* oven isn’t hot enough
Definitely. That’s why I designed & built a wood fired brick oven. The plans and a lot of build doc are out on the web (search for “Pompeii oven plans” or “Jim Hatch pizza oven plans”). There’s also a good little forum of builders. Almost all of the materials are available from Home Depot and total cost was about $1000 with 2 or 3 weekends of work. Or PM me & I’ll send you a copy. They’re free.
I’m a huge thin crust pizza fan so I know your pain
Thanks ya’ll, we have a 36" wood fired I built outside, it takes about 3hrs to get to temp, we do love our 45 second pizzas tho just wanted a propane fired one We can take on boat and use every night.
Just need to fix plasma, waiting on razorweld to respond. Are there fuses? It cut all the above fine, until I cranked up to 45 amps for stone supports.
Is there any way you can get rid of some of that thermal mass? Mine takes an hour to hear up. It was one of the design parameters I was trying to meet (I had 4 kids and they wouldn’t wait 3 hrs for anything ). I built a propane fired forge burner to speed it up more when I wanted quick pizza. It throws off 100,000 btus and takes 15 minutes to heat up.
I expect you have so much mass to heat up that it takes a long time. That’s okay for bread or other longer cooking food but pizza doesn’t need that much mass (unless you’re commercial and need the oven to run 10 or 12 hours so you need to keep it warmed up after shop hours).
Been out of town on a work emergency and dropped my phone, gotta get to Verizon this week.
No fix yet, problem has sat since last weekend, George is on me if we get to meet. Stand up guy
We spoke for a while and I tried some things he told me, took apart torch handle and disassembled and cleaned plunger. It looked like it was brand new.
It was designed to cook bread afterwards so we would all have bread to take home after holler pizza parties (similar to block or neighborhood parties. Just more country)
But we ended up to full, happy and loaded with hops, and grape juice that bread just never worked out
I buy my consumables from mechanic416 and am very happy. I had kinda the same problem ; my torch wouldn’t fire, just air. like a dummy, when I change the electrode and tip I got the swirl ring in upside down. Just thinking!
After talking to Razorweld last night and George over the weekend
I took apart torch to check it out again. I was told this plunger needed to move freely. It uses a spring to let it float back and forth, I cleaned it and it moves freely
just wanted a propane fired one We can take on boat and use every night.
…pm me a number. Wife needs to go take care of her mother at lunch so I got time. And THANK YOU so much
). I built a propane fired forge burner to speed it up more when I wanted quick pizza. It throws off 100,000 btus and takes 15 minutes to heat up.
is on me if we get to meet. Stand up guy 
