I have searched, and spent several lunch breaks calling around, and evenings searching the web. All I can seem to find is aerospace/high-tech firms that want huge production runs. I need some dead-simple lathe work done, by someone competent, that someone here already trusts. These days, I am working from sun-up to sundown on the San Jose - Milpitas, California line (off 137, near Alviso). Anybody know of a good machine shop down there, reachable on my lunch break, that can turn some axle registers?
I need the registers on a pair of axles turned down, so I can run different wheels than were intended for the axles, yet left full diameter near the flange, to continue to center the drums.
Was: Good machine shop San Jose/Milpitas line area. Okay, so no answers. More calls are just turning up shops that are out-of-business, or only want large production jobs, or are too busy, etc. How about any shop in the greater San Francisco Bay Area, or any of you all, who happen to have a lathe, some time, and want some cash? The wheels that I want to run have a hole that is smaller than the protrusion on the axle flange. I need that turned down where the wheel goes, but not where the drum goes. I had a shop do a pair for me, but they somehow managed to introduce runout, ruining the axles. It was bad enough that I could see it with my eyes, and they still wanted to charge me for the job. ...and this was an aircraft shop.
Try calling this guy: Chris's Precision Machine 1381 Freedom Blvd Watsonville, CA 95076 (831) 761-3344 I haven't had him do work for me yet, but he is a customer at my shop and I've talked to him enough to where I had something that needed doing I'd give him a try. Works on big truck, and ag equipment as well as our style automotive, so he has a wide range of experience and doesn't mind unusual requests.
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