Really lousy oxygen cut

Ignoramus6669 · 2009-10-19T17:56:53+00:00

This is my first, maybe second, attempt to cut something with O/A. you can see, the edge is very lousy, full of dross, and justgenerally shitty looking. I believe that this is a 3/8" thick piece of metal. This was a 250lbs, heavy stand that I did not need and cut up for metal stock. So, the obvious question is, what did I do wrong. This was a Victorcutting torch, oxygen pressure was about 25 PSI, acetylene pressure 7PSI, hose was about 50 ft long. My first thought here is that 1) I should have used a guide 2) Ipossibly should have moved faster and 3) Maybe there is some trick toblow away the molten dross.Any thoughts on this?i

Oct 19, 2009 21 Replies

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SteveB 16 years ago

"Gunner Asch" wrote

One who knows what he's doing can do that. For the rest, 4 and 20 are the starting points.

Steve

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Martin H. Eastburn 16 years ago

I retired my all metal body high speed hand drill. The chuck would come off and you can put a saw blade. The custom trigger switch mechanically broke down. I liked the high speed for small drills but the metal case gave me the willies. It was pushing 60 years old rather hard but didn't make it.

I still have some of the parts - the drill press stand and such.

It was a tool set - drill, drill press, table saw - all in one - Sunday paper as a young young kid. I never had the saw blade running - safety issue as a preschool wood worker and later in life I had a real one...

I have Milwaukee and the 'yellow/black' tools...

Mart> "Gunner Asch" wrote

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