Plasma Cutter is Finally Up + Running

I bought a plasa cutter last fall but when the car died suddenly, the money for the air compressor that it requires suddenlt dried up. Sigh.

But then I got a call last week from a relative who was cleaning out a work space and wondered if I'd be interested in going through some scrap metal. When I got there, he still hadn't figured out what he was keeping and what was up for grabs but there was an older compressor that he didn't think he needed. Nice!

A couple new gauges and some rewiring later (it kept shorting out the shop's electricity. Turns out the reason it didn't work was because a more or less lethal amount of current was running through the body of the thing! Maybe that's why it didn't have an on/off switch!) I now finally have the plasma cutter working. Here's what I did the first day, just to test it out.

       

       

I'll post these for sale on ArtBuzz when I get some downtime… If you see one you like, drop me an email. I don't know how many of these small critters I'll make? Right now I've got a much bigger project I started to test out what I can really do once I get that hang of this new tool. I have a feeling that's the direction I'll head. I'm picturing really cool collage versions of circus sideshow banners and such, all done in cut and welded steel. Yeah… That's gonna be mucho grande fun!