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CUSTOM MACHINING SERVICES

Lathe Turning - CNC Machining - Complex Machining

We are different from your standard machine shop in that a large part of our business comes from servicing the particle accelerator industry.  This is a very niche industry where tight tolerances, immaculate surface finishes, and precision fit-ups are a way of life.  

We will approach your custom machining project with the same level of care that we apply when machining rare Niobium cavities that eventually make their way into a particle collider.
Our sweet spot for machining projects revolves around low to medium sized production runs, (1-1000 units), of components that have something unique about them that requires additional attention to detail that other machine shops tend to overlook.  

In addition to our internal machining capabilities we have an extensive supply chain of trusted suppliers that are able to  fill in any unique machining operations that fall outside of our core capabilities.

PRECISION MACHINING SERVICE OFFERINGS

EXPERIENCED MACHINE SHOP LEADERSHIP

Our machine shop is run by Ken Urban who has over 30 years of experience trouble shooting the toughest machining projects imaginable.  Every job is unique and presents its own unique challenges.  We have work with a wide variety of materials over the years and we know how to adapt our fixturing, tooling, feeds, and speeds to produce the highest quality products in the shortest period of time.  Our processes are designed around developing unique fabrication plans for one of a kind products.  We take the lessons learned during short run prototype production runs and apply them to implementing solutions for high volume batch production delivery.
We have multiple lathes including a vertical lathe and a live tooling lathe capable of performing both milling and turing operations in a single setup.

Size capabilities for our turning machines is as follows:

HAAS ST35 Live Tooling Lathe:
23" Swing, 30" Between Centers

HAAS TL3 Lathe:
20" Swing, 60" Between Centers

MORI SEKI Lathe:
18" Swing, 24" Between Centers

CLAUSING Lathe:
16" Swing, 48" Between Centers

BULLARD Vertical Lathe:
70" Swing, 50" Under Column
We have multiple vertical and horivontal CNC milling stations with the following travel capabilities (X - Y - Z):

G&L Horizontal CNC Machining Center:
​80" x 60" x 24" (48"x48"x360° Rotary Table)

HAAS VF-11 Vertical CNC Machining Center:
​120" x 40" x 24"

ENSHU EV650 Vertical CNC Machining Center:
​60" x 26" x 18"

HAAS EC2000 Horizontal CNC Machining Center:
​84" x 40" x 30" (360° Rotary Table)

PROTO TRAK SMX Vertical CNC Mill:
​30" x 20" x 24"

​HURCO MB1 Vertical CNC Mill:
​18" x 15" x 16"

COMPLEX MACHINING REQUIREMENTS

Post weld machining the flange ports on a vacuum chamber prior to welding.

Post Weld Machining

Many features must be machined after welding to account for the distortion that takes place due to welding:

- Facing off flanges to proper heights
- Final cuts on seal surfaces
- True position hole locations
- Machining for tight flatness, perpendicularity, and parallelism requirements 
O-ring groove on the hub of a carbon steel pressure vessel for the oil & gas industry.

Seal Surface Details and Surface Finishes

We fabricate many products for pressure and vacuum service.  The condition of seal surfaces are critical in order to meet stringent performance requirements.  We machine surfaces for many different types of pressure and vacuum seals including the following:
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- CF (Conflat) knife edges
- Indium grooves
- O-ring grooves
- Face seals
​- Raised face seals
- Etc...
Final machined 10ft diameter vacuum chamber with <0.030" true position locations on o-ring and port locations.

Tight Dimensional and Location Tolerances

We live in a world where we have one shot at hitting precise location and dimensional tolerances with no margin for error.  A large portion of the machining work we do is prototype or one of a kind production runs.  Our machinists have to design custom fixturing and setups on the fly all while having one shot at making an acceptable part.

The vast majority of our parts utilize GD&T dimensioning for true position locations on holes, circularity call-outs on ports, as well as flatness, parallelism, and perpendicularity requirements on seal surfaces.

We have designed our processes and procedures around making challenging components for the particle accellerator industry and our machinists apply the same attention to detail to the work that we do for the many other industrial customers that we serve.

Unique Materials

Precision machined components fabricated out of a variety of materials: Copper, Stainless Steel, Aluminum, Inconel, Monel, Hastelloy, G10, Titanium, Platinum, Kovar, and many more.