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November 7, 2023
Up until last week, our online quote page offered laser cutting quotes for aluminium and stainless up to 6mm in thickness. This is because our old c02 laser cutter tended to lack consistency in edge quality on non-ferrous materials 8mm+. Cutting with our new fiber laser, that’s an issue of the past! Edge quality in […]
November 1, 2023
After the 6 or 7 hours the waterjet took to cut our giant slab of aluminium, we had the task of getting the piece onto the fork truck and getting the pieces out of the material. Which was an ordeal to say the least, and none of us felt the need to go to the […]
October 25, 2023
A rather beasty chunk of 70mm thick aluminium was loaded onto our waterjet yesterday morning! Look at cut quality achieved on the test piece in the video too 👌 Updates to follow on this one, as you can guess, it takes a few hours to cut! We don’t quite offer instant online […]
October 23, 2023
The usual thickness limit of steel when laser cutting is 25mm, however the edge quality deteriorates a lot when cutting inch thick steel due to the material heating up whilst cutting. This can even be a problem with 20mm on a lot of C02 lasers. You can avoid this by waterjet cutting which we also […]
October 18, 2023
Laser cutting is pretty much always the most precise and fastest (and therefore, the cheapest!) way to cut up your metal. However, there are a few exceptions! In some instances engineers request a waterjet cut from us even when more expensive to prevent a HAZ (heat affected zone) on their parts, this is normally for […]
September 20, 2023
After launching our online self-quotation page at the start of the year, we’ve carried on serving our old customers through it and even gained some new ones! We’ve listened to feedback and opinions from all of you and decided to make some alterations. As some of these alterations were tied into the checkout screen, […]
June 1, 2023
You may have noticed the “online quote” section of our website has vanished. If you have an active order, don’t worry! It will still be delivered as scheduled. This is just a temporary measure while our team of developers make some tweaks to streamline the system and make it easier for customers to use. We […]
April 18, 2023
We want you to get the best price possible when using our online quote system, here’s a way to to do that:Â When we were designing our self-quotation system, we programmed the system to figure out cut-times based on the number of piercings and lengths of the lines on your dxf. If you have […]
April 12, 2023
Here at Unicorn our waterjet is cutting aluminium pretty much all day, everyday! Of course, it still makes an excellent finish with no HAZ (heat affected zone) in steel, stainless steel and almost anything else you can think of. However, it’s time consuming cutting hard materials like steel and stainless (and therefore, expensive!). Aluminium being […]
April 6, 2023
Last month we got an order from a long-standing customer to cut some 2 inch (50.8mm) thick off-shore gangway hooks. When cutting sheets of this thickness, the handling of the material is always as challenging as achieving the outstanding cut quality that we pride ourselves on, but we think we did a decent job! Take […]
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