Used my finecut for the first time.
Topside -
Minimal dross on the bottom -
After today’s short cut session, UPS delivered those consumables Hypertherm sent for warranty reasons!
Pretty stoked to have a good handful of consumables.
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if your welder has a pulse function you can go back over your crappy welds in pulse mode and “wash” over them. should make them nice and pretty if you can maintain a constant speed while going back over them.
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Eh, I’d never advise going over a bad weld with another weld.
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not another weld. you just wash the weld with the tig torch, its not adding anything, just evens out the weld.
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Wife’s car needed air in her tires so…firing up the air compressor meant I might as well cut something else 
Plus, who can resist cutting into new steel you just laid on the table?!
I have to say, I am in love with these finecut; it cuts so well and the only heat build up is in the corners! The whole rest of the piece was still completely flat at 30" wide -
This is all while using the finecut swirl ring as well and unshielded deflector -
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Game 4 baby. It’s going happen!
That’s funny, one of my first cuts was the LA logo. Cut like 15 while dialing in settings.
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Wait! I thought it was the Brooklyn Dodgers! 
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LA has this one all wrapped up for sure. Start ordering the rings!!
I tried to summon my inner “Ron Covell” and built a table lamp out of 16ga CRS. Pretty fun. It’s big and silly but so am I. The holes turned out .001+ over dimension… that’s not terrible. I increased my Kerf so maybe that’ll help the next go-round.
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I thought that project looked amazing at first. Then I noticed the holes were too big. Now I’m not so sure. Lol
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I thought something looked off!
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Hey, you did a great job on this design and fabrication. Did you model this in CAD?
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Thank you.
I drew the flats in CAD as 3 separate sketches. I don’t know how to model it into a 3D shape yet.
Here is a couple of great videos that Tin did:
Make a cube in “sheet metal” environment of Fusion 360:
Here is a more practical video of making a bumper pattern for a real-life vehicle, Fusion 360:
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Love it. Thank you for sharing these.
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But you sure do a good job on Dogs!
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Have to say, I love how little discoloration (heat soak) there is with the finecut consumables.
What software did you use design that? That turned out GREAT!!