I'm writing from Croatia and here Hypertherm plasma units are most easily obtained.

I'm looking for a plasma unit at the moment just to support my woodworking
jig/tables etc. building, repairs around the house and later maybe with
artistic type work/cnc in steel and stainless
(plasma may be a bit of an overkill for now but am very much looking forward to avoiding
cutting with grinding discs and like having new toys ).

Just wanted to double check - for hand and cnc applications (light work),
am I missing something by going for the pmx 45 over a larger model- eg. noticed in the specs that there's :
-no fine cut consumables
- no 90degree hand torch as standard (wouldn't even know which would be best to get)
- no auto voltage (I guess this means setting the power voltage manually - no big deal)
I'd like to avoid spending this much money and then find out I didn't spend enough

One stupid question - how does cutting square pipe work - do
you drop the current/air and burn through one side at a time ?

I'm a couple of hundred kms from the distributor, so it's a bit difficult
to check it out live - these are the models we have here - I guess
there is no new/old models of the pmx45 :
http://www.euroarc.hr/hyperterm.html.