Affordable plasma cutters are becoming a popular step up from an angle grinder for cutting sheet metal in the home workshop, but cutting long straight lines can be laborious and less than accurate.

Plasma cutters are ridiculously cheap these days, just cruise by the usual online sources or your local Harbor Freight if you’ve got any doubt about that. But “cheap” and “good” don’t always intersect ...

STURGIS, MI --A plasma cutter, cutting torches with tanks, hand tools, chop saws and grinders were taken from Black Gold Farms, 69331 Klinger Lake Rd. in the early hours of Wednesday morning.