Any way to turn an old buzzbox welder into a plasma cutter?

[ZACHV]

I have an old AC buzzbox stick welder and am wondering if it can be converted to a plasma cutter. Am I way off base, or what?

[ZACHV]

Anyone? Buehler?

[Al T.]

I am no authority on plasma cutters.

From what I read the power supply has to output a very high voltage for the arc, about 300 DC volts. OCV. Open Circuit Voltage. Your buzz box is AC and its OCV is about 40 volts.

I don't think this is going to fly.

See Ya

[ZACHV]

Thanks for that. I thought I saw somewhere that either old buzz boxes or battery charges could be used for this somehow. I may have misunderstood what I was reading.
Thanks.

[Al T.]

Some of the other guys are now talking about converting them for TIG welding but I haven't done it myself.

It'll be real basic without a hole lota voltage control but Hey, go for it!

Checkout what the guys are talking about, their experience and ideas is fun to read about.

[Al T.]

http://www.hobartwelders.com/mboard/showthread.php?s=&threadid=435

This is the link to where Dan is talking about converting a buzz box to TIG. He was using DC though, oh well.