Turning, milling and one-off parts in Northwich.
Toolmaker-trained machining from a small, well-equipped workshop. Parts made, modified or put right, and drawn up properly if you need it.
Turned, milled and drilled to size.
- Skimming and facing
- Shortening and re-threading bars and shafts
- Bushes, spacers and adaptors
- One-off and replacement parts
- Drilling and tapping
- Small batches
In: steel, stainless, aluminium, brass and plastics.
Machining first. Design when you need it.
One-offs are normal here. If it's broken, no longer made, or just needs to fit, tell me what you need and I'll tell you straight whether I can help.
Turning
Shafts, bushes, spacers, pins and adaptors. Faced, skimmed, shortened or threaded to size.
Milling
Brackets, plates, slots, flats and pockets, cut from solid or taken off an existing part.
Drilling and tapping
Holes opened up, positioned accurately and tapped, on new parts or ones you already have.
Also
3D printing
Prototypes, fixtures and end-use parts.
Reverse engineering
Worn, broken or obsolete parts measured and modelled so they can be made again.
CAD and drawings
Modelling and engineering drawings to automotive manufacturer standard.
Design to finished part
From first idea to the part in your hand, in one workshop.
A toolmaker first.
I'm Gary, a time-served Rolls-Royce toolmaker. I was trained to make parts to tight tolerances, and that's what this workshop is for: turning, milling and drilling one-offs, repairs and small batches.
I'm also a CAD designer. My day job is 3D modelling and engineering drawings for premium automotive manufacturers, to production standard, and I hold patents on a product I designed and took through to manufacture.
So if your part needs drawing up first, I can do that too, and you're not passing a job between three different firms.
I set up this workshop in my garage in Northwich because there's a gap: plenty of people need a small job doing well, and most engineering firms simply can't make it worth their while. I can, and I enjoy it.
- 1Time-served Rolls-Royce toolmakerTrained to work to tight tolerances
- 2Turning, milling and drillingIn my own workshop, metals and plastics
- 3CAD designerModelling and drawings for premium automotive manufacturers, to production standard
- 4UK and European patent holderA product I designed and took through to manufacture
- 5Design to finished part, one workshopNo passing your job between firms
You do the design, I make it.
Send me your CAD and I'll machine or print prototypes and short runs. Where a different manufacturing approach would save cost or trouble, I'll suggest it before cutting metal.
Straightforward pricing
You always get a price before I start. No surprises.
Quick cuts and modifications: shortening a spindle, easing a part so it fits, a hole opened up.
Machining and making parts, plus CAD, drawings and reverse engineering. Materials at cost.
Send a photo and the size you need and I'll give you a fixed price first.
Four simple steps
I'm a one-man workshop, so jobs run by arrangement rather than walk-in.
Send a photo
WhatsApp me a photo of the part and tell me what you need, with sizes if you have them.
Get a fixed quote
I'll tell you if it's doable, how I'd do it, and exactly what it'll cost.
Drop it off
By arrangement at a time that suits us both. There's no walk-in shop.
Collect or post
I'll email you when it's ready. Collect it, or I can post it back to you.
For safety, I don't modify brake, steering, suspension or lifting parts.
Examples of jobs
A few of the kinds of jobs I do.
Got a part that needs sorting?
Send a photo or a sketch, a rough size, and what you need doing. I'll come back with a straight price.
Serving Northwich, Winsford, Middlewich, Knutsford, Sandbach, Frodsham and the rest of mid Cheshire. Parts can be dropped off or posted.