Lift Arc Studios specializes in custom design and fabrication of anything metal. Ranging from architectural metalworking to automotive modification and fabrication, there's not much Tay and his team cant build or repair. Come with us as we explore the still vibrant craft of fabrication and learn more everyday!
Take a piece of pine wood, heat the aluminum and constantly rub the pine wood on the hot surface until it makes a white chalk line, then it's anealed. After about 4 hours it will go back to the old condition
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cover the exterior in the thickest dynamat u can buy (it's used to rattle proof trunks and doors when large subs make ur car into rattle snake of mockery) then either use wooden 1×1s to frame or metal 1.5 inch studs and frame a box around it. use 5/8th drywall on both sides and foam insulation in the middle and fill any gaps in the framing between the foam with great stuff spray foam.. I know it sounds like alot of work but it's less then $100 in material and ull be able to run that and a work radio on volume 4 will cover it... this box works well with generator sound deadening as well except u have to install a high cfm inline fan when boxing a generator.. 1.5 inches of sheet rock and 1.5 of soild foam can hide the loudest of nonsense
I wonder does that heat and cooling make the copper really soft like annealing it would? When ever i worked with forging copper heating it and cooling it in water made it real sofmebut would the heat and cooling and heating as it cuts change that?
As you will be moving to a larger space, eventually, perhaps you could invest in a water jet... That would cut through that copper like butter... Just a suggestion
@@LiftArcStudios You could also go for one of the little waterjet tables for special cases like these, that would be a much smaller investment. The Wazer Desktop is "only" $10k, and their slightly more powerful (same bed size) version, the Wazer Pro, is $19k. You could even do it 2-tiered, cut the large sections of steel on the plasma cutter and cut intricate details on the waterjet so you don't have to clean it up as much.
Copper and aluminum doesn’t cut well with most plasma cutters. It’s best if you use a water-jet. Taking the extra time to clean up the plasma slag paid off though. It looks great!!!
Wrap the outer surface with 80mil (2mm) automotive butyl sound deadening pads. Be sure to sand (roughen the surface) and degrease the the surface and use a roller to press it on.
Just the fact that you were prepared to do it and film it as it happened, is such a big thing. Everyone who uses these machines, will learn something from this. Maybe not to try or there again, to blow the hair back and try something different just as a learning process. If you don't try you will never know, either way when you've tried it and it works, you become more confident and are willing to try something else maybe completely different. Thanks Tay for the demo and as to the end result, from my perspective, it looks really lovely. I'd buy it. That is not an offer btw! Thanks from UK.
Well thank you for noticing and the kind words, sir! It's one of those daunting / exciting things where the internet doesn't have any good info on it and we figured it would be good to fill that hole.
Yeah, there's an up and downside to everything for sure. We love plasma because we're welders and it's a method we're accustomed to. Water jets are fantastic and so are lasers, hopefully we can get big enough to afford them all one day!
That's a really good idea! This was our first go at copper this thick and honestly, we don't get a lot of copper like this, but it's a good suggestion for anything we might cut that's equally as thick in the future.
We should start a massive sharable doc or club for all this good info. That kind of information sharing and comradery is what's really great about a community of people working on the same stuff.
