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 ...

If you've built a custom classic truck, chances are you've had to deal with cutting metal-it may have been removing or modifying something old or installing something new. And, if you're like most ...

We wanted to follow up our welding series with some more helpful fabrication tips that any mini-trucker could use. Since this happens to be the first-ever Chicks Special in the history of any ...

When a person learns how to cut metal and weld they open a new world of possibilities. The past articles in this series covered the most popular methods for welding, and now we'll look at some of the ...

[Metal Massacre Fab Shop] has a review of a portable plasma cutter that ends up being a very good demonstration of exactly what these tools are capable of. If you’re unfamiliar with this kind of work, ...

It doesn’t matter if you are just getting into your first Jeep or fabricating a frame for your tenth, we all need some way to cut metal for our projects. Choosing the right tool for the job is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...