So not sure if it’s the cheap tips I bought from China (likely) or something else but I dropped a 24x24 plate on the plasma cutter and only get about halfway through the sheet cut out and pop the tip gets a blow out and starts shooting out sideways vs straight down. New tip and same thing. I was using a .08 tip. Another thing I noticed is it seems like the electrode gets pushed in when I put the tip on like it’s too long? The electrode deal is spring loaded so is that a problem? Should I shave the end of the electrode off to fit?
Well first you are trying to use two different kinds of consumables. I don’t know what plasma cutter your using but the electrode, 0.6 and 0.8 are for a S45 torch and the 1.0 is for a IPT torch you can’t mix them it won’t work. And you NEVER, NEVER, NEVER file on a electrode or cutting tip.
I’m actually confused on my torch actually. It’s a RazerWeld Cut45. The torch looks more like the X45 picture under the STORE but the tips and parts looks more like the S45…
Well I turned my plasma down to 30A with the cheap chinese tips I have and I got through a full sheet cut with no blow out issues. Apparently that was my problem the whole time
I thought the tip size was more for cut width so smaller tip finer cut but that makes sense that they’d be limited to the amount of power you can blast out of them.
Assuming then also you’d want to vary tips sizes depending on plate thickness too? Like a 1mm would be more suited for blasting 1/2" plate as opposed to a .6mm and running 20A?
You do know that most of this information is posted on my web site under “all about plasma cutting”. And most of it will apply to hand cutting as well as CNC cutting.
