Affordable plasma cutters are becoming a popular step up from an angle grinder for cutting sheet metal in the home workshop, but cutting long straight lines can be laborious and less than accurate.

In this short shop test I put the YesWelder 55 amp dual voltage plasma cutter through its paces to see what it can really do.

In this quick shop walkaround I show off my newest YesWelder setup, including the compact CUT 55DS plasma cutter and a few ...

The dual-voltage design is one of the more useful features for DIYers and shop users. It can run on standard household 120V power for lighter garage jobs or 240V power when you need more output, ...

Plasma cutters have become one of the most useful tools in garages and home workshops, especially for anyone who works on automotive projects, metal fabrication, or DIY repairs. Unlike traditional ...

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 ...

Designed to cut through thick and tough metals, plasma cutters are best suited for machine shops and heavy-duty construction applications. They rapidly heat up with compressed air or gas, and the arc ...

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 ...

A plasma cutter looks similar to an arc welder, but instead of joining metals, the job here is to cut through them quickly and accurately. We’ve been looking at the technical aspects so we can help ...

Other key factors in the decision included the system’s automated 6-axis robotic FANUC beam cutting capability on a small footprint; its high-definition Hypertherm plasma technology; its ability for ...

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 ...