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The first thing you might think of when hearing the term flame cutting machine is an acetylene torch. While this is indeed a flame cutting machine that is hand operated, it is only the tip of the iceberg where flame cutting machines are concerned in our technological society of today. There are available many types of computer numerically controlled flame cutting machines available to meet your industrial needs. Most heavy steel plants have several of them to fill their customers needs. Many smaller specialty machining shops have them as well. The variety available amazed me.

Flame cutting machines come all sizes and capabilities. From smaller portable varieties designed for the construction work site to larger ones meant for machine shops or steel plants, these flame cutting machines can cut thickness from five millimeters to two hundred millimeters thickness of iron or steel plate. One type is designed sole to cut cast iron or steel piping and rotates all the way around the pipe cutting it as it moves. Another flame cutting machine can cut odd shapes out of your steel plate, can even cut an ellipsoid of up to two thousand millimeters dimension.

Some of these flame cutting machines are designed to operate at very high temperatures, turning the cutting flame into a plasma instead of just a flame. This allows for faster cutting with the removed material being blown away from the cutting site. This in turn makes for less clean up of the cut afterwards. Flame cutting machines that use plasma technology can burn a finer cut than the older acetylene cutting systems. This makes for less wastage and better conservation of stock material. This also causes less heating of the surrounding metal, thereby causing less tempering of heat treatable metals. Plasma versions of flame cutting machines can, with modern technology, cut even non-conductive metals. This was not possible in the past and severely limited their use into specialty areas.

Flame cutting machines today are either operate in a set pattern or are computer numerically controlled. Computer numerically controlled flame cutting machines can cut very intricate patterns in your stock. This allows you to make individualized instrument panels with preformed cutouts for the instruments. This is just one example of what can be done with computer numerically controlled flame cutting machines. The possibilities are as vast as your imagination.

As with any industrial machine, wearing the proper protective equipment is a must when operating a flame cutting machine. Not only should your protective eyewear be thick enough to absorb any splatter that may occur, but also it should be tinted to protect your eyes from retinal damage caused by the brightness of the flame. Thicker protective clothing has long been advantageous to wear when using any form of flame cutting machine. Again this is to protect you from the splatters of molten metal that are sometimes produced by flame cutting machines. The state of the art flame cutting machines available today are opening up new vistas of metal working for manufacturers in our modern technological world.