If the tip has the same round hole in it as it did when it was new it doesn't make a fuck what it looks like.
He means take the tip off and show him the electrode inside it.
I use the fuck out of my ching-chong tig/plasma's plasma (40amp). The up side is that they cut VERY well for the money. The downsides are:
VERY fast consumable consumption VS industry machines - make sure yours uses the long chinese electrodes, NOT SHORT!!!
Just like using the HF for tig, you MUST keep tabs on your internal spark-gap or YOU WILL FRY THE CONTROL BOARDS.
Torches are horribly cheap. You better treate them like 100#s worth of gold.
Here's what my 40amp did oh so long ago:
If the tip has the same round hole in it as it did when it was new it doesn't make a fuck what it looks like.
He means take the tip off and show him the electrode inside it.
I use the fuck out of my ching-chong tig/plasma's plasma. The up side is that they cut VERY well for the money. The downsides are:
VERY fast consumable consumption VS industry machines - make sure yours uses the long chinese electrodes, NOT SHORT!!!
Just like using the HF for tig, you MUST keep tabs on your internal spark-gap or YOU WILL FRY THE CONTROL BOARDS.
Torches are horribly cheap. You better treate them like 100#s worth of gold.
Lastly, the air/water separator does not work as well as a real unit.
Here's what my first 40/amp unit did before it died on day 1 (spark gap):
Will sever cut 1/2", clean cut 3/8-5/16 depending how patient you want to be with it.