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David Courtney David Courtney is offline
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Default Economics of plasma cutting

"Jim Wilkins" wrote in message
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"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 08:04:45 -0400, "Jim Wilkins"
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So far for me it totals out to ~$10 per inch, not counting the cost of a
larger air compressor.


Doublecheck that figure, Jim. That works out to nearly $190 to cut
out a simple 6" circle of material. You'd go broke waiting for the
first customer at that price! Did you transpose the decimal one place
over?


It reflects how much I paid and how little I've used it, because the
compressor I had was inadequate.

jsw


Then it's about the same cost as my TIG welder... per inch of weld.
:-(