Engineering students at Easton Area High School know from experience that 3D printing can be a solution to problems but it’s not perfect. Because it prints in tiny layers, objects can take hours to be ...

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 ...

It may be [MakeItExtreme]’s most ambitious build to date. There are a lot of moving parts to this plasma cutter tubing notcher, but it ought to make a fine addition to the shop and open up a lot of ...

Little Shop of Physics has built a miniature plasma cutter using a pencil lead together with 4 x 9 volt batteries and a couple of clips allowing you to cut through aluminium foil. Watch the video ...

Speed, efficiency, and accuracy is what the Machine Shop’s new plasma cutter provides to the team who supports Yuma Test Center. The shop recently upgraded to a Plasma Cutting System (PCS) 5000EH. In ...

Industrial processes are becoming more and more accessible to hobbyists and engineering renegades, those unaffiliated with research institutions or patent-churning corporations. Case in point, as of ...

Plasma is superheated, compressed air that ionizes to form a conductive gas. This gas conducts electricity from the torch of the plasma cutter to the work piece, through a electrode and copper nozzle ...

What do you get when you combine an arc cigarette lighter and some scrap glass and metal? [NightHawkInLight] created a simple plasma cutter project along with some hot glue and a few simple tools. If ...

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 technical aspects so we can help ...