For service shops and machine builders
You already run a machine shop. This page is about the parts that don’t fit in it: too long for your lathe, a bore past your hone, a hole deeper than anything you own. We take those parts as subcontract machining, finish them to your print and send them back to you. We don’t quote your customers.
A service shop is built around the work it sees every week. The shaft that’s twice as long, the cylinder bore past the hone’s reach, the 90-inch gundrilled hole: those turn up a few times a year, and buying a machine for them doesn’t make sense. That’s the work our floor is set up for. We handle the oversize part, and you keep the job.
Check your part against the machines it would run on.
| CNC turning | 32″ dia × 60″ (Okuma LB4000EX) · 14″ × 83″ (Doosan Puma 300XLY) · 20″ × 54″ · 18″ × 45″ |
| Mill-turn | Mori Seiki NTX2000, 24″ dia × 60″, simultaneous 4/5-axis |
| Large turning (manual) | Two vertical turret lathes to 60″ dia · 43″ × 170″ between centers with taper attachment · 26″ × 160″ · 26″ × 120″ · 20″ × 60″ |
| Milling | 157″ × 40″ × 70″ · 60″ × 30″ × 30″ with 4th axis · 40″ × 20″ × 20″ |
| Horizontal boring (manual) | 96″ × 40″ × 70″ · line boring to 20″ dia over ~50″ |
| Honing | .060″ to 26″ ID, up to 120″ long, ±.0001″, finishes down to 4-8 RMS |
| Gundrilling | 5/16″ to 4″ dia, 96″ deep |
| Grinding | Surface and cylindrical, in house |
| Threads | SAE/Unified, metric, Acme, metric trapezoidal |
| Splines and keyways | In house |
| Materials | 1018/1020 through 4140HT, 15-5 PH and 17-4 PH stainless, Inconel, titanium, bronze |
| Measurement | Keyence XM-5000 portable CMM, profilometer, full manual gauging |
| Lifting | 10 tons |
Most shops never ask this out loud, so we’ll answer it up front. We work as your subcontractor. Your customer is your customer. We don’t contact them and we don’t quote them. The part comes to us from you and goes back to you. If you want it shipped straight to your customer, it goes with the paperwork you specify.
Four steps, and the same person is on your part the whole way through.
A drawing, a sketch with the critical dimensions, or the worn part itself. If there’s no drawing, we measure the old part and work from that.
We review every RFQ within one to two business days. Simple parts are quoted in one to two days, and larger jobs within a week.
One person owns your part from setup to final check, and you can call them directly.
Material certs, first article inspection and inspection reports on request, on our form or yours.
Pump and turbine shafts longer than your bed · hydraulic cylinder barrels honed past your capacity · gundrilled shafts and extruder barrels · gearbox housings that need line boring · large rings, sleeves and flanges on the vertical turret lathes · long Acme and trapezoidal screws · splined and keyed shafts in 4140HT and stainless.
We run Saturdays when a job needs it. If your customer is waiting on a broken part, tell us that when you call and we’ll set the schedule with you.
No, unless you ask us to.
We review every RFQ within one to two business days. Simple parts are quoted in one to two days, and larger jobs within a week.
Either. We can hone a tube you’ve already turned, or make the whole part from bar.
Yes. We measure it and make the new one. See reverse engineering.
Whatever you specify: material certs, first article inspection, inspection reports. We have our own report form, or we’ll fill in yours.
No. We’re ITAR registered, and here’s how we run a job instead.
Hillsborough, New Jersey. Parts go out across the United States, Canada and Mexico.
Email your print to sales@zalamachine.com or send it through the quote form. We review every RFQ within one to two business days.
