Cut the stainless steel.
Plasma cutting stainless steel pipe.
For stainless tubing a circular saw is a perfect tool to use.
Precision plasma can pierce and cut stainless steel up to around 40mm and high amperage plasma systems can pierce and cut stainless steel up to around 100mm.
304l an austenitic stainless steel is the most commonly used grade worldwide.
This is especially true for thicker stainless steel plates where plasma cutting is almost universally considered the best solution.
With the new cutting capability penn stainless now can cut stainless steel plate up to 6 25 in.
Photo courtesy of penn stainless products.
After doing the first two steps you are ready to cut your stainless steel.
When the board has placed on a steady cutting surface clamp the negative cable to your working area.
It uses the concentrated beam of energy to cut through a quite thick piece of material without much issue.
Plasma cutter is ideal for cutting the large and hardest stainless steel panels.
Be it standard or cut to size sheet and plate in stainless steel duplex and super duplex stainless steels mild steels and carbon steels aluminium and exotic alloys in thicknesses ranging from 0 5mm up to 100mm.
The next consideration for successful stainless steel cutting with plasma is material type.
The thickness of the resolidified layer generally is in the 10 to 30 m range less than 0 001 inch.
When a plasma process engineered for cutting 304l is applied to another similar austenitic alloy for example 316l dross and a rough cut edge can result.
Plasma arc cutting of austenitic stainless steel alloys produces a haz characterized by a thin layer of resolidified metal adhered to the cut edge.
Thinner sheets however only require a tin snip.
With an edge start plasma can cut up to about 160mm.
Figure 5 removing huge chunks of slag on cut pipe was a very labor intensive job before the water mist technology was installed.
The stainless steel processor s new plasma cutting machines occupy the same footprint as the company s two 20 year old plasma cutting tables.
Little or no solid state phase transformation is observed in the microstructure.
The small heat ring in this schedule 40 stainless steel pipe is evidence of the cooling effect the water mist has on the plasma cutting process.
Precise machine motion controls torch to material distance control and the correct plasma and assist gases all are crucial to producing weld ready plasma cut edges on all stainless steel thicknesses.
