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ICEE CUTS ‘TOMMY SOLDIER’ PROFILES BY
WATERJET Using a powerful and accurate waterjet machine tool, manufacturing subcontractor ICEE Managed Services is cutting a range of commemorative World War I ‘Tommy Soldier’ profiles and outlines from acrylic plastic and mild steel materials.
The work is being done for ICEE’s customer Littlehampton Welding Ltd., a UK maker and installer of architectural metalwork and public realm artworks.
Littlehampton Welding’s customer, Remembered, a charity currently running a major nationwide campaign called ‘There But Not There’, featuring the evocative profiles.
Using the same high pressure Bystronic computer numerical control (CNC) waterjet machine to cut plastic and metal versions, the parts ICEE has produced for Littlehampton Welding include several 1.83 metre high solid profiles, cut from 25mm thick clear acrylic plastic, and a 2.8 metre high linear outline cut in one piece from 20mm thick mild steel plate.
Remembered’s campaign is designed to support the commemoration marking the armistice period and the end of WW1 centenary in November this year. As a striking way to publicise the campaign and raise money for beneficiary charities, life-size and larger Tommy Soldier profiles and outlines, cut by ICEE, are being finished and installed by Littlehampton Welding for Remembered, across the United Kingdom in prominent public spaces.
To cut out Tommy Soldier profiles from clear acrylic plastic, Littlehampton Welding decided the waterjet method was best suited because it is a cold-cutting process and it cuts cleanly, accurately and rapidly. The cut surface has a fine quality matt appearance that requires no fettling and gives no clue as to the production process. Additionally, without any compromises, the same machine will also cut mild steel sheet and plate.
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As one of several subcontractors approached, ICEE was given the job because, as Littlehampton Welding’s Technical Director, Martin Norrell said: “We have worked with ICEE before and tend to prefer them for finer quality projects. We know their waterjet equipment is modern and appropriate and they also possess the right expertise.
With little or no heat produced during the process, ICEE’s waterjet machine will cut a variety of ferrous and non-ferrous materials, including mild steel, Corten weathering steel and stainless steel up to 25mm thick (a greater thickness for aluminium). Titanium plate may also be cut and stone materials including granite up to 230mm thick, plus concrete (with or without reinforcing bar), carbon fibre composite materials and plastics.
While the Tommy Soldier plastic profiles and metal outlines are processed with the waterjet machine cutting in two-dimensional (2D) mode, ICEE’s machine will also cut in 3D.
Thanks to 5-axis CNC movements, 3D cutting offers great potential for producing a variety of imaginative, three-dimensional forms from thick materials. The 3D process often offers a less costly alternative to milling, grinding or casting.
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