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Pete C. Pete C. is offline
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Default Making sense out of oz/inches...


Bob Engelhardt wrote:

Pete C. wrote:
IPM, divide by 60

10-300 IPM is typical plasma cutting speeds.
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It's funny that they would use IPM as the unit rather than IPS. IPS is
much easier to grasp intuitively. E.g., 5 IPS vs 300 IPM. 5 inches per
second I can "visualize" the velocity: think "one thousand one" &
imagine a 5" distance. 300 inches per minute I can't.

Bob


Could go metric...