Our Machine Shop
Ryder-Heil Bronze has been on a journey since we first opened our doors in 1910. Back then, customers could only receive unfinished castings from the original foundry, very different from the capabilities of today. After modernizing our existing machine shop in 1997, we introduced new machinery, capable of delivering parts specific to customers’ blueprints. Today, we’re able to supply our customers with a variety of parts, including bronze bearings, bronze bushings, bronze wear plates, and bronze thrust washers.
The Machine Shop is equipped to provide all your turning, milling, grooving, and secondary operation requirements. All these requirements can be provided by one or more of our state-of-the-art, dedicated machines.
Machine Shop capabilities:
Turning up to 72” between centers Turning up to 40” OD Our CNC mill is capable of up to 50” X-axis, 20” Y-axis, 20” Z-axis with 4th axis up to 18” diameter Our CNC lathe capability extends to 40” OAL and 26” turning diameter, with third-axis live tooling All above with CAD/CAM interfacingSome of our other services include graphite impregnation (either plug or groove) and hydrostatic pressure testing of component items. All finished items are dimensionally inspected with in-house record keeping. We also offer three-dimensional inspection utilizing the latest Coordinate Measurement technology. To see what other services we have, check out our Services page.