Metal Plate Cutter
Analisa Wisdom
Discover the best option for high-quality metal cutting needs with this affordable shear cutter. Perfect for your metal fabrication projects, this versatile tool effortlessly slices through aluminum up to 0.035" thick and handles steel or brass up to 0.030". Its user-friendly design allows for quick blade changes and simple guide adjustments, ensuring precise cuts every time. Designed exclusively for cutting metals, this shear cutter is an essential tool for sheet metal work and other metal cutting applications.
Mild steel plate sizes manufactured by steel mills are commonly cut down to 4-feet-by-8-feet or 5-feet-by-10-feet sheets but can be cut to whatever size a customer requires. Nonstandard sheet sizes will often be more expensive to produce than standard sizes.
Steel mills sell stainless steel plates in different grades and material types, with textured, embossed, brushed, and coated finishes. Stainless steel may be used in many of the same applications as mild steel but this material is more expensive.
Aluminum does not occur in pure form but is chemically refined from bauxite ore, chemically extracted into alumina compound and then smelted to aluminum metal. This material features some outstanding and highly desirable properties. Aluminum can be easily recycled, has a very high strength-to-weight ratio and is corrosion-resistant.
Aluminum sheet metal is used for a wide range of applications. It is used in everything from aircraft and automobile manufacturing to beverage packaging, cryogenic storage applications, construction, and building facades.
If you cut aluminum with plasma on a water table, the aluminum oxide byproduct mixes with the water underneath to create explosive hydrogen gas. At Messer Cutting Systems, we recommend you regularly drain and clean the table to avoid putting your team at risk of explosive gases. Dry plasma cutting, however, creates combustible dry dust when cutting. Messer Cutting Systems has taken extra precautionary steps to resolve issues connected to smoke removal and the combustible dust from dry tables. We have collaborated with two dust-collector suppliers, Camfil APC and Donaldson, to manage these safety issues.
If you cut aluminum with plasma on a water table, the aluminum oxide byproduct mixes with the water underneath to create an explosive hydrogen gas. At Messer Cutting Systems, we recommend you regularly drain and clean the table to avoid putting your team at risk of explosive gases. Dry plasma cutting, however, creates a combustible dry dust when cutting. Messer Cutting Systems has taken extra precautionary steps to resolve issues connected to smoke removal and the combustible dust from dry tables. We have collaborated with two dust-collector suppliers, Camfil APC and Donaldson, to manage these safety issues.
We believe that dry cutting aluminum with a plasma cutter is the best alternative for thermal cutting. Simply put, cutting aluminum with a plasma cutter is beneficial for the work environment and lower maintenance.
Oxy fuel flame cutting is a thermal cutting technique in which a gaseous fuel rapidly oxidizes the steel along a set path. The process is highly efficient for steel plates up to 12 inches in thickness.
First, a stream of oxygen and fuel heats the metal to its ignition point, which, for mild steel, is approximately 700-900 C. Next, a stream of pure oxygen runs across the metal, weakening the metal and generating iron oxide. The oxidation reaction continues, with the stream of gas blowing off the iron oxide, until the plate is cleanly sliced.
Oxy fuel flame cutting is a versatile and precise process, used to achieve tolerances of .063 to .250 inches across a range of industry applications. Some sectors that benefit the most from oxy fuel flame cutting include:
A plasma torch uses a copper nozzle to focus a stream of superheated, ionized gas. Within the nozzle is an electrode, which generates an arc of electricity between the nozzle and the steel plate. The combination of compressed gas and electricity yields a high-powered, highly precise stream of gas that cuts through metal with ease. While manual plasma cutting is possible, we typically use advanced CNC plasma cutters for maximum speed, precision, and cutting area. With these machines, we achieve cutting speeds exceeding 10m per minute without sacrificing accuracy.
Different laser cutters are suitable for different types of plate cutting projects. CO2 lasers, which use carbon dioxide as a medium, are weaker and better suited to soft materials or engraving. Fiber lasers are more powerful, incorporating optical fibers as their medium, and can cut a wider range of materials. They also tend to be more precise and efficient. On the whole, though, either laser cutting technique can be highly effective when used in the right setting. Laser cutting is especially valuable for precise, intricate designs with tight tolerance requirements.
Oxy fuel flame cutting, laser cutting, and plasma cutting are all excellent, effective steel plate cutting processes, but not all techniques are appropriate for every project. Considerations like thickness, edge finish, and cost can influence your selection, so it pays to consult with an experienced metalworking professional before beginning an order.
Accurate Metal Products has offered premium metalworking services for over 25 years. Our offerings have grown to include plasma cutting, laser cutting, and oxy fuel flame cutting services, as well as grinding, blasting, and heat treating. We offer a full range of value-added services, including cleaning, packaging, barcoding, and free delivery within 150 miles of our Milwaukee or Rockford facilities.
The machine can be configured to run continuous cast grid strip, single or double panel, lugs in or lugs out. The system features a longer steel belt for easier tracking and better glass mat compaction into the plate. It also eliminates the loop between the paster and the cutter which improves cut accuracy, helps paper / glass mat adhesion, and prevents paste from accumulating and affecting plate thicknesses.
The system is designed specifically for safe and easy operator access and the internal design has all drives protected for wash down and features an inner pan to collect paste slurry though the glass mat and wash down water.
Grid Entry Table
The grid entry table is located before the hopper and it helps assure paste flow underneath the grid. With proper adjustment the grid entry table will hold the grid off of the belt in the pasting area.
Symmetrical Pasting
Wirtz has redesigned the orifice plates to allow easy plate flow to the bottom side. Improvements and changes mean that you can apply equal weights and thicknesses of paste on the top and on the bottom side of your grids.
Rotary Plate Cutter
This machine features an integrated rotary plate cutter in a quick change module. The module can be changed by removing four bolts so cutter head change over is simplified and can be done in just minutes. The tension on the head now comes from the top so it is easy to adjust. There is side to side adjustments and a smaller anvil allows for easy transitions in and out of the cutter head.
Nose Bar Exit Conveyor
The exit conveyor is designed so that the freshly cut plates do not collide with the conveyor. The conveyor is easy to clean so that any other paste that bleeds through the glass mat papers can be collected and removed.
The Wirtz Combined Steel Belt Paster Rotary Plate Cutter sends grids and paste between a steel plate of custom design and a rotating steel belt. The movement of the belt helps the system be production friendly, but the grid strip and the paste need to be of good quality.
We offer instant online prices and rapid lead-times for precision sheet metal parts, including metal laser cutting, tapping, deburring and graining, metal bending, and powder coating. We can make your custom sheet metal parts as fast as same-day.
Need help? Give us a call at 801-850-7584 and we'll be glad to help. We are a direct metal cutting service, with no fabrication brokers or 3rd-party service providers between you and your parts. That means better prices, better customer support, and better lead-times. Online laser cutting has never been easier.
Our system analyzes your custom sheet metal parts and provides instant Design for Manufacturability (DFM) feedback for both flat and bent metal parts, letting you know if there are any problems that could affect your finished part.
OSH Cut's internal quality and production management systems go above and beyond the core requirements of ISO 9001:2015. We review production issues, error rates, customer reviews, and other indicators weekly, and use that information to build a culture of continuous improvement. Our goal is to offer perfect sheet metal parts.
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