There’s no reason to use a hacksaw in a modern farm shop. Cutting metal on a farm often used to involve either an oxy-acetylene torch, a hacksaw or tin snips. If a shop was “high-tech,” it might have ...

Many of us have wondered at least for one time that how do people precisely cut materials like stainless steel, aluminum, brass, and copper? Well, they basically use a technique called plasma cutting ...

Anyone working in a fabricating shop or machining operations comes face to face with a steady stream of science and technology every day. Speeds, feeds, calculations, and reactions — you have to be ...

For many four-wheelers, building our rigs is almost as much fun as driving them. There are many really unique and functional rigs built in the home shop. The adage that "real Jeeps are built, not ...

A plasma cutter works by using electrical current to superheat gas until it reaches the fourth state of matter, plasma. This directed plasma is 30,000 degrees Fahrenheit and reduces metal to molten ...

Plasma cutting – occasionally referred to as ‘plasma arc cutting’ – is a melting process that sees a high-temperature ionized gas jet used to melt the material and expel it from a cut. This ionized ...

WHICH PLASMA CUTTERS ARE BEST? A plasma cutter looks similar to an arc welder, but instead of joining metals, the job here is to cut through them quickly and accurately. We’ve been looking at the ...