For one-off projects or prototypes it’s not uncommon for us to make do with whatever workspace we have on hand. Using a deck railing as an impromptu sawhorse, for example, is one that might be ...

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 ...

Plasma cutting – occasionally referred to as ‘plasma arc cutting’ – is a melting process that sees a high-temperature ionized gas jet used to melt the material and expel it from a cut. This ionized ...

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 ...

[Daniel] has been metalworking on a budget for a while now. Originally doing things like plasma cutting on old bricks, he used his original plasma cutter to make an appropriate plasma cutting table ...

The first time a real retractable plasma blade flared to life on camera, it looked less like a fan project and more like a physics experiment that had slipped its leash. This was not a glowing plastic ...

The Cutmaster X 90 and Cutmaster X 110 from Thermal Dynamics, an ESAB brand, feature a new arc starting mechanism that the company says has no moving parts, and starts the arc within a few thousandths ...

The dream of a real lightsaber has always sounded like a physics joke, not an engineering brief. Yet a retractable plasma ...