This is the general job shop work: a custom part in aluminum, steel or stainless, made to your print or worked back from the broken one.
A job shop exists for the parts that cannot be bought. Something is obsolete, or it was custom to begin with, or the original supplier has stopped making it, or the standard part almost fits and almost is not good enough. That is the work.
We fabricate in aluminum, steel and stainless. If you have a drawing, we build to the drawing. If you have the broken part and no drawing, send a photo of it and we can usually work back from there. If you are still deciding what the part should be, we can model it in CAD first and print a fixture or a check piece before any steel gets cut, which is cheaper than finding out on the material.
Bring us a photograph and a dimension and we can usually start the conversation. The job form takes file uploads, and for this kind of work a photo of the part on the floor is worth more than a paragraph describing it.
One thing worth saying about scope. General job shop work is a wide description and it is meant to be, but it is still commercial and industrial work. Outside of handrails, gates and fences we do not take residential jobs, and we do not take small repairs regardless of who is asking.
What we are good for is the part that does not exist any more, the part that was always custom, and the part that has failed twice and will fail again in the same place unless somebody redesigns it.
How this job runs
The same sequence every time, so you know what you are buying.
Built to the drawing you already have.
Reverse engineered from the failed component when no drawing exists.
Material chosen for what the part has to survive, not for what happens to be in the rack.
3D CAD and a printed check piece before cutting, on parts where a mistake in material is expensive.
Send a photograph of the broken part. That is usually enough to start.
Most of this work arrives as a phone photo of something that failed, and that is a perfectly good starting point.
| Starting point | What we need from you | What happens next |
|---|---|---|
| You have a drawing | The drawing and the material spec | Built to the print |
| You have the broken part | The part, or a photo with a scale reference | Worked back from the original, usually with more material where it failed |
| You have a photo only | Something in frame for scale and two or three dimensions | Geometry derived, then confirmed with you before cutting |
| You have an idea | A description of what the part has to do | Modelled in CAD first, often with a printed check piece |
What to send us
Everything you leave out becomes an assumption, and assumptions are what make an invoice differ from a quote. None of this has to be formal.
A tape measure or a ruler in the same plane as the part.
Load, environment and whether anything hits it. This decides the material.
A sentence is enough to start. Precision comes later.
At your facility, or can it come to the shop.
Including any shutdown or outage window, and whether the date is fixed.
For anything that already exists, a photo does more than several paragraphs.
Questions about aluminum, steel and stainless fabrication
What materials do you work in?
Aluminum, steel and stainless.
I do not have a drawing. Can you still make it?
Usually yes. Send a photo of the part, ideally with a tape measure or a known object in the frame for scale, and we will tell you what else we need.
Can you make one part, or is there a minimum?
This is a job shop, so one-off work is normal. What we do not take is small repairs, which is a different thing from a small part.
Do you do the finishing too?
We do light industrial sandblasting for surface preparation ahead of coating or repair. Tell us what the part has to stand up to and we will tell you what we can do here.
Other things this shop does
Send us the job
Describe what you need made or fixed and we will send a quote back. Photographs and drawings help more than anything else, so the form takes uploads.
Commercial and industrial work. Residential is limited to handrails, gates and fences, and we do not take small repairs.