In this episode, Jim Colt, an industry veteran from Hypertherm, talks about how to cut expanded metal with a CNC plasma cutter. Visit https://www.maverickcnc.com/ for more information on all of our plasma cutting tables.

The Hypertherm Powermax plasma is fully capable of cutting expanded metal. The power supply has an expanded metal mode.

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Video description :

Hi, Jim Colt here with MaverickCNC, this is a MaverickCNC MV machine that’s set up with a Powermax 85 plasma cutting system. I get a lot of questions about a lot of different materials, we’ve spoken about corrugated material, we’ve spoken about tread plate cutting – things like that.

Another one we run into, quite often that is system is fully capable of handling, is expanded metal. You might use, it’s metal that’s actually expanded and has, usually has diamond shape holes in it and typically in the past you had to cut it with an abrasive cut off saw, with a hand cutting torch, oxy fuel torch or something like that.

The newer technology plasma cutting systems, like this Powermax 85 from Hypertherm has an expanded cutting mode so you basically turn the switch on the front panel of the power supply into expanded metal cutting mode and then throw your plate on the table and you do have to, in most cases, you have to defeat the height control system, in other words, put it into manual height control mode, control the height manually but it does a very good job cutting that material at very high speeds.

Another thing a table like this MaverickCNC table can unlock for you and give you really good cut quality.

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