No I meant I was amazed you could cut something so narrow without it melting off. I get nervous when something is less than 2mm wide.
You gotta live life on the edge man! 
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Oh, thanks. To be honest I just wing it and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. I don’t typically make signs with the machine however, I usually make car parts, so I don’t cut things that sharp very often. I got lucky with that cut up until I bent it trying to keep it from hitting the floor.
Lesson there is that I should not be dropping things.
I understand being concerned about that though. Sharp corners and tight spaces make for some interesting times with a plasma cutter.
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I forgot how well a bath of fresh vinegar solution does at mill scale removal. Got lazy and hadn’t changed out my solution for about 6 months. I mix 1/2 gallon of 45% vinegar solution into 10 gallons of water. It works well and is not irritatingly strong if you catch a breath of it.
According to Win11 Search Assistant:
When you mix 64 ounces of 45% vinegar with 10 gallons (1280 ounces) of water, the total volume becomes 1344 ounces, and the amount of acetic acid from the vinegar is 28.8 ounces (64 ounces × 0.45). The new concentration is approximately 2.14% acetic acid.
24hrs later:
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Made some ears for a bucket I am fabricating out of an old smooth skidsteer bucket to go on my mini excavator. 3/8” steel, Miller 625 hand torch. I still need to make some bushings for my pin size. 3/8” might be a little thin but I plan on welding some gussets on the sides of the ears. 3/8” is what I had and I don’t know how well my Miller would cut 1/2”
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I’ve learned to drill or machine the holes for pins, especially on thicker than quarter inch…especially on 1 inch plate
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Play with your torch height.
I used a value of -0.2 in that item and 100ipm.
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@peterro Where did you find these ferns? I teach and these would look great in my office…
I had to make a few tweaks for all the leaves to be cut out but they weren’t too bad.
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Most recent project. Similar to the fern panels but the feel of our Hawaii trips. I was also learning a bit more about inkscape conversions.
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Hi Jim, I can tell by your posts that you are my kind if guy, I just ordered a PRO for my retirement in 6 months (on my 67th birthday) for easier custom fabrication. I have also been searching for a way to convert a photo into a stencil without a subscription to photoshop. Can you shed more light onto how your friend Alex did the conversion?
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Here is a free website that does a decent job of getting you started toward the silhouette that you need for 2 color pictures.
Here is an example I just did:
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That is really cool, I suspect that you are going to enjoy your new machine.
My buddy Alix went into Chat GTP and typed out a description of the image that he wanted, and he stated in his description that he wanted it to create the clean end file that could be converted to a DXF or SVG file.
He then said something about uploading an image of the dog that Chat GTP used to create a cut ready file. In the original post I put in there that he sent me a DXF file, but going back through my saved images I found that he sent me a PNG that I used in a converter to create the DXF so I could put it into Fusion 360.
So basically he just had Chat GPT create a custom clean clip art. Then I used an online free program called Convertio that converted the image to one that could be used in Fusion. Convertio will convert to several different formats, but I only use it for DXF or SVG.
A couple of extra steps but it converted really well the first time and did not require any clean up on my end to get a decent cut out of.
I know nothing about those AI programs so beyond that I probably could not answer questions. If you have any about Chat GTP though I am willing to contact Alix and ask him - if that would help you out at all.
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look at this post - Victor - Image to Cuttable Vector
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Thanks for the guidance.
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Thanks for your guidance.
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Canva made their Affinity studio software free within the past couple of months. It looks and feels like photoshop and you can do graphic design and photo editing. You can open Photoshop, Illustrator and other file formats and export to a number of different formats.
Affinity | Professional Creative Software, Free for Everyone
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Seems like that would make the people at Serif.com pretty cranky since they have their own Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher software that is not free.
Scratch that. Apparently, unknown to me, a Customer of the Affinity Suite, Serif has somehow morphed into Canva. This is an interesting kettle of fish…
This might explain why my last attempt to update the SW went to some incredibly slow server. I finally gave up thinking it was a ‘weekend’ thing…. Apparently not as my current request to update is crawling… I guess you get what you pay for. Wait, I DID PAY for this!
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Yeah, go figure. A father’s day gift from the Mrs. earlier this year.