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A variety of methods are used for cutting, dependant on the material and quantity. Steel beams are general cut using a horizontal bandsaw. This gives a clean accurate cut while keeping the beams cool to ensure minimum distortion with high precision.
Flat bar, angle and round sections are sheared or cropped using a Kingslands work centre. This assists with speed of fabrication as drilling and sawing can be a slower process.
For complicated cuts or unusual shapes Oxygen and Acetylene (hot process) are used. However for speed and efficiency on bulk productions, plasma cut plates are used.
All welding is done in house. Welders are coded, qualified and trained to following strict welding procedures. This allows us to ensure the quality and standard of weld required to comply with BS EN 1090 (UK CA marking).
415 volt Water cooled Jasscic MIG welding plants are used. When calibrated annually and regularly serviced these welding plants ensure consistent quality of weld. In addition, they can be continually used, without the need for regular breaks due to the torches or welding plants overheating. Increasing productively and efficiency of time.
A wide variety of Magnetic base drills are used for the drilling of holes. From large heavy machines to drill larger holes through to smaller compact machines for ease of drilling in tighter spaces. we even use the latest 54volt Battery mag base drills manufactured by DeWalt.
The standard tolerance on drilling within the steelwork industry is 2mm. Meaning a 16mm bolt would require an 18mm hole, giving +2mm tolerance on a hole.
Most holes created in our workshop are punched. Punching hole as opposed to drill is much faster and by far more cost effective, this also allow us to produce square, round, or slotted holes.
Plate shearing is made easy on our Kingsland work centres, with the capability to shear 25mm thick by 400mm wide plate in a single stroke. Sawing thick wide plate can take its toll on saw blade, it is roughly 10 times faster to sear a plate than sawing, this is why it is our preferred method.
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