The questions we answer before a first order.
Written from the quotation desk. No company news, no product launches — one buying question per page, answered with mechanisms and numbers.
What to send a factory for a CNC quotation
The seven pieces of information that decide a CNC quote, the file formats that survive translation, and what happens when one of them is missing.
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Why your second anodised batch does not match the first
Anodised colour is set by oxide thickness and alloy lot, not by a hex code. What to approve, and when, so the second run matches the first.
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What tolerance can a CNC shop actually hold?
Why ±0.005 mm is a feature-level number, not a shop-level one, and how to read a tolerance callout before you send a drawing to a Chinese machine shop.
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Swiss-type or turn-mill: which machine should make your part?
The bar diameter, the length-to-diameter ratio and the number of features decide whether a part runs on a sliding-head lathe or a turn-mill centre.
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Send the drawing. We quote within 24 hours.
STEP, DWG, DXF, PDF or a photo with dimensions. Tell us the material, the annual quantity and the finish, and the quote comes back with the process route and the tolerance we will hold.