Thermal cutting is the right tool for a lot of steel. It is the wrong tool for a rubber gasket, a foam pad, or a carbon panel. Heat shrinks rubber, melts plastics, and can burn the resin out of a composite so the fibres fray.
Waterjet cutting in the Osborne Park shop is a cold process. Garnet in a 60,000 psi stream does the cutting. The sheet does not get a heat-affected zone, which is why the same bed runs stainless in the morning and gasket sheet in the afternoon.
What that means on a real part
- Seals and floor-mat profiles stay the size they were drawn.
- Foam and soft sheet are not dragged or crushed the way a knife can drag them.
- Carbon fibre and fibreglass keep the resin at the edge.
- Hardened or already-heat-treated plate is not softened along the profile.
Send the file through the quote page or read the waterjet service.