Tube Laser Cutting Services: Why Bent Tube Should Be Cut After Forming
A tube laser cutting service cuts holes, slots, mitres and end profiles into metal tube using a laser rather than drills, saws or punches. If your tube has already been bent or formed, you need a 5-axis laser that can follow the shape in three dimensions, which is how we cut formed tube at GF Laser in Dudley.
View →What Metals Can a Metal Laser Cutting Service Cut? A UK Buyer's Guide
A metal laser cutting service in the UK can typically cut mild steel, stainless steel, aluminium, galvanised steel, brass, bronze and copper. At GF Laser in Dudley we cut mild steel to 20mm, stainless steel and aluminium to 12mm, galvanised and Zintec to 5mm, and brass, bronze and copper to 3mm, on sheets up to 4000 x 2000mm.
View →Subcontract Laser Cutting in the UK: When Does Outsourcing Make Sense?
Subcontract laser cutting means sending your drawings to a specialist that owns the lasers, holds the material and returns finished parts, so you pay per part instead of paying for machines, operators and floor space. For most UK manufacturers it makes sense when volumes change, when work needs capacity you do not have, or when a part needs a machine you would never justify buying.
View →CNC Folding Services in the UK: How to Get Bent Sheet Metal Parts Right First Time
A CNC folding service bends sheet metal on computer controlled press brakes, so every fold lands at the same angle and in the same place across a whole batch. The fastest way to get folded parts right first time is to use a supplier that laser cuts and folds under one roof, because the flat blank can be worked out from the finished shape before a single sheet is cut.
View →How much is it to get something laser cut?
The honest answer is that it depends on four things, and this is how each of them moves the price.
View →Accurate laser cutting: what is actually possible?
Our standard is ±0.25mm, and ±0.1mm is achievable with prior technical approval. Here is what governs it.
View →Should I choose laser cutting or CNC machining?
They are not competing processes so much as different answers to different drawings.
View →What is the smallest hole you can laser cut?
The rule of thumb is that the hole should be no smaller than the thickness of the material.
View →Laser cut garden screens
One of the more decorative things that comes off the bed, and a good example of cutting to a drawing you have designed yourself.
View →GF Laser take on additional space
More floor space in Dudley, taken on to hold more customer stock and run more work through the building.
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