Lidl plasma cutter for £80

[Nearly]

I count five

Presumably profitable for eBay resale.

2 of mine, one for a friend or a spare for site work.
The other 3 were @TripleSix and his friend and the guy behind them at the till.
They're useful but I don't need 5.
I forgot about them until 8 this morning and landed at local Lidl to see one bloke in overalls wheeling one out in a trolley.
We nodded to each other and carried on.

 

[steveR]

Popped to Lidl in Hadley, Telford at 8.30. One from 4/5 left when I collected mine....

 

[steveR]

Bought one this morning from Shrewsbury (about 10am, only one left on sale after I took mine). Already have the one without a compressor which gets used only occasionally, but fancied this at the price because of the built in air compressor.

First impression, build quality looks good, ready to use straight out of the box as it says - although there is a switch you need to change to "internal air supply" and also a valve you need to make sure is set to internal air supply (it comes with a short length of air hose so you can use an external air supply. Comes with a blue 3 pin plug fitted.

Used it initially to cut some 6mm plate which it did easily at a setting of 25amps, then turned it fully up to 40 amps and tried it on 10mm plate which it managed, although you obviously had to take it slowly. Then when I tried another cut on the 10mm stuff the thing stopped! Thought at first it was the thermal cut-out because the duty cycle at full power is something like 20%. However turned out I'd blown the fuse in my 13amp plug (was using a converter connector, naughty I know). Looks like I might need to put in a dedicated circuit.

One other thing - when running on the internal compressor, it's bloody noisy!!

Alchad

Edit....just thinking about why the fuse blew on the cutter with the built in compressor when using the blue to 13amp converter connector when it has never happened with the other Lidl one- maybe the extra power required for the internal compressor pushed the electrical demand over the edge??

Oooops!

I did the same with my welder, welding some heavier strrl plate than normal and cranled up the juice.... Now got a new 16amp plug in teh workshop

 

[Bury the Trash]

Best go back in on Thursday

ah i see, i peaked too soon


dont want one tbh, got a chinese 50 amp one allready that doesnt get used much. i worked at an engineers once upon a time and we used a big real mc coy 3 phase one there ,i didnt like that one either .


one day when were in there i shall see if i can get another pair those work troo's tho .

and more of the brackets as they have found there way onto straining posts to hold the strut inplace

but when theyre gone theyre gone!

 

[Will 1594]

150 now , wife just picked one up ,

 

[Nearly]

149 inc vat so 124 and coppers for those getting it back.

 

[steveR]

ah i see, i peaked too soon


dont want one tbh, got a chinese 50 amp one allready that doesnt get used much. i worked at an engineers once upon a time and we used a big real mc coy 3 phase one there ,i didnt like that one either .


one day when were in there i shall see if i can get another pair those work troo's tho .

and more of the brackets as they have found there way onto straining posts to hold the strut inplace

but when theyre gone theyre gone!

The brackets are wonderfully useful!!!

 

[Northern territory]

Was the £80 just a first come first served job then.

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

I got mine at Hawick this morning, they had 7 in stock at 8am, so was 6 left,
Tried it late thus afternoon, straight out of the box, put together leads etc.
And it was not bad for the price, and it won't get used much,
Cut a bit of scrap steel at 8mm think fairly clean really,
So happy with it for now

 

[steveR]

I got mine at Hawick this morning, they had 7 in stock at 8am, so was 6 left,
Tried it late thus afternoon, straight out of the box, put together leads etc.
And it was not bad for the price, and it won't get used much,
Cut a bit of scrap steel at 8mm think fairly clean really,
So happy with it for now

Got a couple of projects so should be useful here .... and will also dump my account with BOC for the gas axe oxy!

 

[farmideas]

Brought one last week, it’s really good. Only had a little play with it but cut some 10mm effortlessly, have brought a few tools from Lidl and they have all been good.

Had a tip from a farmer who had been using steel plate or box section as a guide to get a straight line. He found the tips soon wore. He found out that the steel bends the flame. Using a wood straight line did the job. Saved the expense of new tips. #farmideas

 

[Drakey]

Went to three Lidl’s in town all sold out apart from the last store which was the last one !

 

[steveR]

Had a tip from a farmer who had been using steel plate or box section as a guide to get a straight line. He found the tips soon wore. He found out that the steel bends the flame. Using a wood straight line did the job. Saved the expense of new tips. #farmideas

Damned fine tip that......

 

[Bury the Trash]

Can anyone tell me if the lined work trousers as mentioned above are a regular stocked item in some of their stores ?

i really find them comfortable and would like another pair or 2 !

 

[colhonk]

Asked daughter to call into Lidl to get a box or several of the tips for plasma cutter apparently all you lot have snaffled them all already.

 

[Nearly]

One of the pair I bought is going back.
Compressor doesn't run and even on external air the torch doesn't fire up.
It's probably just an internal non-connection but I'm not overjoyed at the one that does run either.
I'll be saving up for an Rtech.

 

[steveR]

Available on eBay...

Asked daughter to call into Lidl to get a box or several of the tips for plasma cutter apparently all you lot have snaffled them all already.

 

[colhonk]

In the box, what is the short bit of plastic pipe with a brass fitting on one end for?

 

[milkloss]

In the box, what is the short bit of plastic pipe with a brass fitting on one end for?

for external air. But the Lance doesn't control it, when using external air it's always flowing.

 

[colhonk]

Finaly unboxed my plasma and used it,, Unbelievable. at last, something that does what it says on the box, brilliant thing. (so far)