Incredible way to bend steel with your plasma cutter
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- Опубліковано 21 лип 2024
- Have you ever wanted to bend a heavy-duty metal in your garage but you don’t have an oxy-acetylene torch or a blow torch to heat and bend it? Well, I don’t have an oxy-acetylene or even a blow torch in my garage but what if I need to bend metal in case I need it to fix something? This is where my creative mind came to work again and I thought that if an oxy-acetylene torch is capable of spouting super hot flame to soften up metal, why not use your plasma cutter as a gas torch?
I thought that if a plasma torch produces more heat than an oxy-acetylene torch, Then my PT 31- LG 40 plasma torch is designed to produce a super-hot plasma that can cut any type of metal. My only problem now is how to slow down the hot plasma so it won’t cut but just heat the metal and make it bendable. So this video is all about how to use your plasma cutter as a gas torch and I came up with a PT 31 LG 40 plasma torch hack.
To show you what a plasma torch can do to a large ring spanner that’s made of vanadium steel, I strapped this on my table clamp and used the torch. Vanadium steel is one of the hardest metals that most of our heavy-duty hand tools are made of. They don’t break and don’t bend easily. However, in only about two seconds of being exposed to the plasma, the steel began to melt.
With this observation, the only thing I need to do now is to prevent the hot plasma from coming out from a small opening so that it won’t be too concentrated. So I started to think about how to modify my PT 31 plasma cutter consumables. To start with my PT 31 - LG 40 plasma torch hack, I cut the cutting nozzle in half because I wanted to enlarge the hole and assembled my torch along with other consumables - electrode, swirl ring, and ceramic tip.
As you will discover in my video my PT 31 - LG 40 plasma torch hack worked. The plasma that came out from my torch was not hot enough to cut the steel but only softened it and I have indeed bent my ring spanner without cutting it. So if ever you would want to bend a metal rod in your garage, you can use your plasma cutter as a gas torch if you’re out of oxy-acetylene. However, this is just my suggestion, and not recommending it to you. If you have the oxy or a gas torch, these are still the best tools for the job. But as you can see in my trial, the hack I did also worked.
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Handy tip , you can also do this with the arc from a tig torch if you hold the arc back at the right distance you don't melt the metal but can get it to glow, takes a bit of practice but works a treat.
Yea take a while to learn lol.
What a great trick of the trade… thanks!
Super job Pete! Love your tips, and greetings from Canada. Another Thumbs Up!
Awesome, thank you!
Great idea ,also be good heating rusted on parts , like getting nut off with buggering up threads
cool thanks
Crazy but works! You never stop surprising us!
Thanks my friend
Your new camera and audio rocks....very clear...much improved!
Yea But will take me 6 months to learn how to drive it LOL. Cheers pete
This is awesome Pete 💥🇨🇦👌. Can come in handy for stubborn bolts.
Great idea with bolts cheers
Enjoy and shared the content. Hello from South Carolina, USA
Thanks my friend
This is really smart, I am going to try this technique to see if I can straighten some welding distortion I did to my trailer. It seemed maybe only axy acetylene would do it but it would be amazing if I could use my plasma cutter!!
Great try it my friend
Bloody good idea- I gave up oxy years ago, its just too expensive here in Australiabut missed it for bending steel- the press and hammer can do a lot- but just doesnt give the degree of ease that heating it does- that will be my next time attempt with the plasma cutter instead... 😁
Cheers Steve
Great option to have!
If you need to hold something small and fragile like that, rather than use regular pliers use a pair of vice grips maybe with a bit of bike inner tube to soften the jaws (vice grips give heaps more control over the amount of force) then hold the vice grips in your bench vice. Frees up your hands and gives a lot more control for cutting/grinding - plus if you're like me trying to do that with regular pliers you'll drop it three times and it'll bounce under a cupboard to be lost forever.
great idea
More out of the box thinking, love it.
Thanks Michael
Amazing content!
Thanks mate
Pete, you sometimes come up with great ideas, now you just have to connect argon gas instead of compressed air to a pressure reducer and then you can plasma weld 😜👩🏭 Greetings, Marko
LOL
Thanks mate.
You're welcome!
Hi,Pete I like your innovations, could you advise the same for brazing. Regards mike uk.
Good idea for a video
I like you you old kiwi, brilliant idea!
Thank you! Cheers!
love it. dirty but effective.
YeAAAA my friend
Hello from Nunavut BTW.
Hi, Thanks for watching my friend
Wondering whether you could just drill out the tip?
Yea sure can but hard to hold as very soft .
Great videos Pete. Can you do that with an ag60. What air pressure ?
Hi Richard .never tried with ag60 mate
@@petestools maybe disconnect the pilot arc lead
What happens if you do the same with the pilot arc torch?
Will give it a try cheers mate
did you have your voltage and air pressure all the way down?
no running at 40 amp
Love those Yeehaa moments
YEE-HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Not that I'm keen to bugger up a wrench but wow , I love it when a tool can be modified to go beyond design and original purpose. Too many expensive specialty tools just lay in the drawer most of the time, useless and lonely.
True my friend
I don’t know about your plasma cutter, but my instructions say the cutter should always be in contact with metal and running the torch without contacting metal will shorten the life of the machine.
Starch start but not pilot arc cheers
Yasou Pete
Hi mate