Cobra cutting welding

I've seen them used at Sun and Fun (big airshow) a few years back. Seemed pretty cool. Saw the guy cut 1/2 steel into letters about 2" tall, effortlessly. Of course Shopsmiths look pretty cool at mall demos, but I know better...

The main interest I have is its supposed ability to gas weld aluminum easily. TIG welding aluminum leaves the weld hard, gas welding it leaves it annealed, more easily ground down and worked (for cosmetic things like fenders and such). I guess the low pressure is what is unique here.

By the way, you can get it for $340 directly from them.

Tools

First time I used a plasma Tig machine was in the early 70's. Worked well but liked the consumables. I don't remember alot about it other than the machine was hard to adjust. Coors only had one plasma Tig machine so I didn't get too much time with it and we didn't know you could "cut" with them at that time...LOL

From what I've seen of the newer machines, I would think it's more cost effective to have a dedicated plasma cutter and a dedicated Tig machine.

You have a URL for eastwood ?

T_Bone

www.eastwoodco.com if i didn't do the clickable right

Well I went to Henrods website and took a look. I guess it's one of those "you have to see it" things. I didn't see anything that would cause me to shell out $400 to try it. I spent about 1/2hr reading.

Keep in mind it's not like a plasma torch as it will not cut non-ferrous metals other than melt thinn SM. I also seen in a few pages where they stated:

"moving the torch too quickly will cause the weld zone to crystalize"

That's about the time I quit reading. If someone had one local, I would take a drive to look tho.

Thanks for the link!

T_Bone