All Metals Fabrication, (AMF) has internal CWI’s but occasionally, as required by our customers, we are required to hire an outside CWI to inspect our welds. Recently, we were required to do just that, making...
A day in the life of AMF’s amazing job shop fabrication includes this complex stainless-steel test chamber which will be shipping to Seattle, Washington where our customer will be doing small explosion tests inside...
Tube Fabrication has taken giant leaps in recent years with the advent of dedicated tube laser fabrication machines. Fabricators, in the last few years, have seen significant advancement in this technology. In the past, many...
One in a while, when we see something anew, we can have an aha moment—a paradigm shift of sorts. These creatively engineered parts are all part of a fixture assembly that a clever engineer designed once he understood what kind of cutting a tube laser could do! All of these would have been machined parts […]
Read moreTube lasers, obviously, are limited to cutting one stick of tube (or angle or channel) at a time. How does that stack up to saw cutting bundles of tube when comparing labor time? The answer may be surprising. Bundle cutting is very efficient, but it has draw backs. Here are a few the bundle cutting […]
Read more5-Axis Tube Lasers sound pretty cool but what does that actually mean? Pictures well help explain—hopefully a few sentences will help as well. Axis #1: Material is moved from Left to Right (or Right to Left) along the horizon, as it were, of the machine. Axis #2: Tube Laser Head is moved from Front to […]
Read moreMuch like flat sheet lasers, Tube Laser’s can cut Steel, Stainless Steel and Aluminum. Some are surprised to learn that tube lasers with 5-Axis cutting capacity, are well suited to cut Angle, Rectangular Shapes, Channel, Beam and, of course, round and square shaped tube. AMF’s tube laser, a Mazak 3D 220 Fabri Gear, is also […]
Read moreTube lasers do battle with tradition fabrication methods very well! Sawing, deburring, coping, mitering, drilling are common fabrication processes, but one might question how tube lasers stack up against the likes of traditional machining centers. The answer—very well. Frankly, the main issue when comparing a tube laser to a machine center is tolerance. Dedicated tube […]
Read moreThe answer is, again, a resounding YES! Just like Tube and Angle, Channel can be sliced, diced, notched, mitered, slotted, hole-patterned and cut with obscure shapes. These type of cuts, because of the Tube Laser’s ability to rotate the channel, combined with a 5-Axis beam head, can happen in the web or on the legs […]
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