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What's wrong with cutting piece 304

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azadfar

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Jan 15, 2015
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What's wrong with cutting piece 304 with air plasma and not with nitrogen?
 
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Nothing is wrong with doing that. Compressed air will leave a highly oxidized edge that will have to be removed by grinding or other means. Nitrogen will give you a better cut edge.

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And Argon will be cleaner yet.
If you use air you will have a lot of clean-up work, grinding the cut and maybe pickling to remove other oxidation.

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