Does anyone know if the 1mm cutting discs manage 6mm steel plate? I am weighing up selling my plasma cutter but will need to cut plate in a few months time.

Or, does anyone want a low mileage plasma cutter?!

They cut 5mm plate very easily, so 6mm shouldn't be a problem

Cheers
David

will do it no prblem but you will be using discs like you never have before.

Yeah fine, we use them on stainless, phosphur bronze etc etc. Just don't let it get trapped, cos they pop nicely

ATB

Simon

I used grinder discs on a piece of 10mm plate and used them up very quickly. I ended up using my jigsaw with a metal blade and it cut it very easily (but couldn't do turns very easily).

i bought 50 for 10p each when screwfix had a clearance, so no worries about using them fast!

Cheers peeps.

I'm a bit suprised at the responses as I've been cutting 8mm plate today with no worries and not many discs at all!! In fact, I cut around 5 meters worth of 8mm and used three discs.

it all depends on the quality of your cutting discs

i cut up 4 oil drums in half, i managed to cut one oil drum up using 4 of machine marts finest 1mm cutting discs
then i got my hands on one 1mm cutting disc from my old man that came from where he works (all they do is welding and fab) and cut the other 3 drums using this one disc

so the quality of these cutting discs does differ

erbauer

I could be interested in the plasma cutter - do you want to U2U me the details please

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Originally posted by JoelP
erbauer

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I found erbauer ones last no time at all, Bosch ones seem to last about 3x as long. That was cutting grating and 3mm steel angle. Used about 6 to do the first 3m of cuts and one Bosch to do the remaining 1m of cuts and there's loads left.

was you using the inox ones? they last ages compared to the normal ones.