Munkul
Jack of some trades, Master of none
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Mine is the older cut40 model. It has the LT50 torch. Consumables on Amazon for the CB50/LT50 are cheap and cheerful (cheaper than IFL, anyway!) and it severs 12mm mild steel at a push. It's comfortable up to 8mm and works great on 6mm. Was very impressed with it the other day - used on 8mm aluminium checquer plate, slow and steady, made 4m of perfectly acceptable cut.Is your the itech cut40 or just cut40 model?, when you say it just works, do you mean it does what its meant to or it only just works sort of thing, also what do you think of it, good bad? Cheers
I also ditched the standard size nozzles and only using the extended length ones, they're a better all rounder IMO and you can use a bit of flat bar as a cutting guide.
The only thing I hate about it is the electrodes aren't threaded - they are push fit, and when they're used, they expand in the torch and each time I think I'm going to break the torch to wrench them out with pliers.
Obviously a newer machine with pilot arc will perform better, but its not a bad machine in its own right