Metalmite has always made very small parts that are extremely precise. You can see by the photo attached that these parts are like thimbles, yet the tolerances are very tight. These also happen to be stainless steel parts that must be made from solid bar stock. We have found that by using our Mori double chuck lathes with live tooling…
Our new safety program is being rolled out this month. Ask one of the employees how that is going. We are taking the initiative to keep everyone safe and keep your parts safe and sound at the same time! Recently I read this in an article- “Every person working in a machine shop must be trained on the equipment present,…
Metalmite is known for fast lathe turn-around time! We have had an influx of lathe work that we are thrilled to turnaround fast. We have been able to help multiple customers with parts that were log jammed at their place and get them through and out in two weeks or less. We have over 13 CNC lathes that are ready…
We received our new 5 axis CMM from Hexagon Metrology and we have been doing some incredible inspection since then! Our Inspector Greg R. has gone out for training and learned the new aspects of the new equipment. We have had customer’s come just to have us inspect parts that other suppliers made in order to verify results!… For over…
Every single part we machine here is not cutting- edge 5 or 6 axis mind-blowing crazy you know? Sometimes we get simple hubs, or other parts that anyone could make. But our mission is to turn customer’s needs into reality better and faster than anyone else! In order for that to happen we need to be able to do the…
We make thousands of splined shafts per year and many customers do not seem to know that. Just the other day we were giving a shop tour and someone commented how many splined shafts were on carts in our shop during various processes and they could not believe it. We informed them that splines and gears are probably the most…
For years we have been asked to help prototype Outer Races for the CV Joint and Driveline groups that we work for. We have always been able to rough them out and grind everything except the ball tracks after heat treat. This year we explored our options in tooling and quality assurance and found that we could finish the tracks…
At Metalmite we quote many various kinds of steel and aluminum to our customers. Many times we get requests that we are not familiar with and we need to do some research. Earlier this year we had a request to make something out of XC38 steel. As we dug in to Google we quickly found out that this is a…
It never ceases to amaze me that we can make parts like this complete in one machine. Our Mori Seiki NL-2500 sub-spindle lathe with live tooling is really equivalent to four machines though. We were able to get the solid model of that part featured and find a way to turn the interior portion and then mill the outside to…
Using our 6 axis lathes with live tooling we are able to make complex parts in a fraction of the time it used to take. In the picture here you can see how this part would normally be many different operations on many different machining centers. We continue to explore the latest technology and try the latest tooling as well.…