Have you ever wanted to bend a heavy-duty metal in your garage but you don’t have an oxy-acetylene torch or a blow torch to heat and bend it? Well, I don’t have an oxy-acetylene or even a blow torch in my garage but what if I need to bend metal in case I need it to fix something? This is where my creative mind came to work again and I thought that if an oxy-acetylene torch is capable of spouting super hot flame to soften up metal, why not use your plasma cutter as a gas torch?
I thought that if a plasma torch produces more heat than an oxy-acetylene torch, Then my PT 31- LG 40 plasma torch is designed to produce a super-hot plasma that can cut any type of metal. My only problem now is how to slow down the hot plasma so it won’t cut but just heat the metal and make it bendable. So this video is all about how to use your plasma cutter as a gas torch and I came up with a PT 31 LG 40 plasma torch hack.
To show you what a plasma torch can do to a large ring spanner that’s made of vanadium steel, I strapped this on my table clamp and used the torch. Vanadium steel is one of the hardest metals that most of our heavy-duty hand tools are made of. They don’t break and don’t bend easily. However, in only about two seconds of being exposed to the plasma, the steel began to melt.
With this observation, the only thing I need to do now is to prevent the hot plasma from coming out from a small opening so that it won’t be too concentrated. So I started to think about how to modify my PT 31 plasma cutter consumables. To start with my PT 31 - LG 40 plasma torch hack, I cut the cutting nozzle in half because I wanted to enlarge the hole and assembled my torch along with other consumables - electrode, swirl ring, and ceramic tip.
As you will discover in my video my PT 31 - LG 40 plasma torch hack worked. The plasma that came out from my torch was not hot enough to cut the steel but only softened it and I have indeed bent my ring spanner without cutting it. So if ever you would want to bend a metal rod in your garage, you can use your plasma cutter as a gas torch if you’re out of oxy-acetylene. However, this is just my suggestion, and not recommending it to you. If you have the oxy or a gas torch, these are still the best tools for the job. But as you can see in my trial, the hack I did also worked.
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