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Industrial Applications
This S.D.V.O.B business is run solely by me, Pat
Burrington, and I invite
you to contact me concerning short runs, government contracts,
prototypes, or personal projects. I can take .dxf, .dwg,
pdf's, bitmaps, jpegs, faxes, sketches, scans, etc., and turn them
into a finished product.
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Shop Picture, Inkom Idaho.
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Shop and shop office photo.
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A 3-wheeled Hyster in Salt Lake City, UT.
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After a good servicing & paintjob, this forklift helped me
get work I couldn't lift in the past.
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The shop floor after repainting Dec. 2005
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Another view of the shop area.
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Steel fold down table for stone cutting-Classic Marble &
Granite, Pocatello, ID
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Aluminum assembly for fuel dumper. |
Waterjet cut brackets to hold additional fuel tank on 4
wheelers. |
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I fab'd this elevator to backfill a retaining wall that is
behind the company shop. |
Ten sets of square tubing benders for a customer that sells
these on E-bay auctions. |
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I built myself an aluminum tilt snowmobile trailer. Fall
of 2006. The entire trailer was designed on the OMAX waterjet
software. A lot of the parts were cut on the waterjet and
assembly went very well. |
Assembling the cross rails. Since the pattern was
designed on the computer, all the trial and error was done ahead of
time so that there wasn't any material wasted.
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Putting the sub-frame on the axles. |
Welding the frame together with the pulsed MIG. |
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Sammy trying out the tilt part of the trailer. |
The trailer with the deck on it prior to getting the ramps and
front put on. It ended up being 8' wide and 21'
long. |
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The hydraulic jack pivots the trailer down so you don't need
any ramps in back. |
Welding the drop down ramps on the front. |
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The triangular pieces fold down and make the drive-off portion
of the ramps. This saves about 5'0" of length by not
having a V-nosed trailer. |
Welding up the ramps. |
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Me standing on the trailer. |
I estimated the trailer was only 600 lbs. minus the axles. It
pulls really well. I later put UHMW on the ramps to help the
sleds drive off more easily. |
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Area behind the company shop where retaining wall was started. |
I fab'd these steel panels for the retaining wall. |
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The posts were driven into the ground and welded to the panels
one at a time. |
After the second level was complete, the elevator I built was
used to backfill the wall, prior to the 3rd level being erected. |
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Waterjet cut slots in CrMo tube for AMS, Inc-American Falls, Idaho. |
Aluminum paint mixers custom built for Frazier
Industrial-Pocatello, Idaho. The plates were all cut on the
PlasmaCAM.
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Waterjet etching of flaming skulls on aluminum valve covers for 454
rebuild. |
I waterjetted a hub out of discontinued rim, replaced it with a
different hub, then welded it back together. |
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Waterjet in action cutting a 5/16" steel sign. Visit Omax
Waterjet at www.omax.com |
Our CNC operated Plasma table. It
handles mat'l 48" wide and up to 20ft. long if necessary. |
Cutting table converted from Plasma to Oxy Fuel Cutting of
1" Plate.
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Plasma table fitted with welding screens and optional roller
table. See more on www.plasmacam.com
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 New
Mill/Lathe purchased in Feb. 2005. I am attending Machine Tool
night classes at Idaho State University to sharpen my skills.
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I had metalworking training in the Army as a welder/machinist
and think this will be a good asset to the company.
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These snowmobile rails were egged out and had dug into the
shaft. I built up both aluminum pieces, turned the shaft down
on the lathe, and milled out the slots. Both worked fine. |
A waterjet cut piece of CrMo plate 1 1/4" thick for a
replacement gear on a Ducati motorcycle rebuild project. |
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Misc. aluminum parts. |
I designed, cut and welded these boxes for a local customer to go
on trash trucks to divert exhaust heat. It now keeps the
wet garbage from freezing inside the truck during cold weather. |
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Photo of new Cleveland Steel Tool 55 ton Ironworker purchased in
JUL 2005. |
Some plasma cut 5/16" thick steel after-market suspension
parts. |
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A set of waterjet cut copper bus bars for local mfg. firm. |
Don't know if this should be on the metal or industrial page...A
B&W pic of a rose was scanned, cut, and polished for
dressing up a black Harley Davidson's fuel tank. |
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Oxy Fuel Cutting of A-36 Plate for compaction wheel.
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Custom waterjet cut replacement grill for 1980 GMC Truck.
1/4" Aluminum
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Pat doing some flux-cored arc welding on a Sheepsfoot
compaction wheel.
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Waterjet cutting square slots in aluminum tubing through one wall
only. |
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10' long Aluminum ramps designed, fab'd, welded, and load tested
by Rapid Creek Cutters. |
Ramps made of rect. tubing with diamond plated wheel tracks for
extra gripping power. |
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Compaction Wheel fully assembled. All parts designed
& fabricated by Rapid Creek Cutters.
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Side view of wheel. This weighed approx. 3800 lbs.
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I am building a 50" wide, 96 ton hydraulic press brake
for myself. All parts were designed and cut with OMAX's
waterjet software. www.omax.com
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Assembly of the brake in Jan of 2005.
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I designed an adapter for my MaxJET 5 cutting head that
allowed me to bevel several 2" thick stainless plates at a 45
degree angle. Much faster than milling, no warpage, no plasma
or laser induced heating to alter the metal's
properties.
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 Just about to the end of one of the bevel cuts.
Can you imagine doing this 6 ft. long, 2" thick on a
mill? (twice!) |
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22 ga. galvanized stencil for local concrete company.
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Waterjet cut complex rubber gasket for prototype engineering
project.
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A 50" dia. 4 pc. flange cut from 1/2" Hastelloy
plate. It was requested by the customer to be done this way to
conserve metal. |
4 flanges cut from 1 1/4" steel plate. JR Simplot Co.,
Pocatello, ID. |
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These neat little brackets were designed by Ward+Blake
Architects, Jackson Wy, emailed to me as a CAD file, cut out and
shipped the following day. |
Waterjet cut 1 1/2" thick stainless chain hooks and lifting
rings prior to machining the radiuses. |
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I use my welding inspector background to waterjet procedure
plates for local customers and testing labs. Shown are tensile
pulls from 1" stainless steel. I also am able to cut the
bends and tensile specimens in pipe as well as plate. |
Here are the "dogbones" removed from the plate where
they will be pulled to record the weld metal's tensile
strength. |
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Samples of copper medallion, a piece of mirror with a
5/8" tall 5 pt. star, wood template, & steel horse
bit.
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got my first bending job from the Inkom Fire Dept., 20 minutes after
it got wired in.
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The press brake upon completion April 2005. I have
gooseneck knife dies that are 4",6",8" and 12"
for box & pan capabilities as well as the full knife die shown
above. |
Custom request to make some brass spinners for a fishing lure
project.
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1 1/2" thick custom wrenches-Vollmer Well Drilling,
Aberdeen, ID
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Ooh....I'm grinding my life away...
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Aluminum Fabrication on tanks.
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4" Thick T-1 plate for bearing mount waterjet cut &
beveled for J.R. Simplot Co. |
4" Thick 7075 aluminum mini-crankcase blank cut for airplane
engine. |
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3" thick A-514 steel hooks for Monsanto, Soda Springs,
ID plant. |
1" thick stainless steel freeze brand. Courtesy- www.horsecanyon.com |
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Filter Wrench for Union Pacific reefer car compressor unit. |
Stainless Steel Tank being Fab'd |
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A custom set of 3/8" steel wrenches, waterjet for Moser
Machine Shop. |
I fab'd this alum. flatbed and clip for Olsen Custom Transport
Company. |
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1/4" colored acrylic sign letters waterjet for local sign
company. |
Completed 535 Gallon Water Tank |
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ATV Skid Plate
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4 Pieces Assembled for a Custom Alternator Bracket |
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These knives then get sharpened, polished and handles added by
the customer. |
Waterjet cut 1095 steel survival knifes. There were 160
cut for the order. Courtesy of Micro-Tool, Inc. Idaho
Falls, Idaho. |
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Short run of cut and welded Detroit Diesel exhaust adapters for
Golden Valley Sales, Pocatello, ID
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Proudly supporting the Unions with a short run of IBEW hitch
covers during the Christmas rush. |
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Stainless Steel
Sprockets |
Custom Machine Parts |
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Custom Disks for Allison Transmission |
MISC. STEEL FAB.
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This piece of CrMo 3/8" plate has 630 individual slots of
.030" wide cut in it. Courtesy, AMET-Rexburg, Idaho. |
Need more POWER? How about some waterjet cut reed
spacers for your snowmobile. A customer gave me the gasket, it
was traced, converted, and these were cut from 1/4"
aluminum.
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CARBIDE PIPE CUT-OFF TOOL |
Short run of log cabin beam connector
plates done with our Plasma table |
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Serrated Cutting Edge of 5/8 inch AR Plate
(abrasion resistant steel) |
Railcar Cogs |
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1 1/2" Thick Custom Drill Rig Wrench. This wrench
was over 6 ft. across and weighed almost 400 lbs. |
Custom VW Exhaust Flanges. |
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Custom
Fab'd fully adjustable trailer stands |
Gearbox Mount showing original 11/2"
plate,
excess interior parts and wooden pattern |
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Custom Man Hole Cover |
Waterjet Etched O-Ring Groove in 3/4" Thick Mild Steel
Flanges. |
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2" Thick Alum Spacers for Hi-Performance Engine |
Waterjet Cut Wood Used in Prototypes Prior to Final Machining
in High Dollar Material |
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Finish quality - 5 grades - best on the left |
Specialized Tools
this one made from Hardened T1 Tool Steel |
