On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 08:04:45 -0400, "Jim Wilkins"
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I have been getting various quotes for plasma cutting jobs. I
understand that there are disposables involved with tangible costs.

It occurred to me that there has to be a figure that would price out
the cost of a plasma cut perhaps in terms of dollars/inch of
cut/thickness of a given material, thus isolating the procedural costs
from others such as workshop rent, labor etc.

Has anyone done this?

Michael Koblic,
Campbell River, BC

So far for me it totals out to ~$10 per inch, not counting the cost of a
larger air compressor.


Yes, I have few tools like that, too :-) Don't some of the plasma
cutters have an in-built compressor?
However, I was thinking more along the cost in terms of consumables.

BTW I was quoted double for the same job cutting by water jet as
opposed to plasma.

Michael Koblic,
Campbell River, BC