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Industrial Machine Parts Reverse Engineering

Drive shafts, gears, couplings, cams, housings and brackets for production machinery, conveyors, presses and industrial equipment — reproduced from a worn sample with no drawing needed.

Gear tooth profiles recovered
Keyways, splines, bore fits
No English docs needed
Quote in 24h

Machine Parts We Reproduce Most Often

Drive shafts

Journals, keyways, splines, threads and gear seats — all measured on CMM and restored to original fits.

Spur & helical gears

Module, pressure angle and tooth profile recovered from the original gear. Replacement runs true with the mating set.

Couplings & hubs

Spider couplings, jaw hubs, flanged couplings — bore and keyway to OEM fit.

Cams & cam plates

Cam profiles measured and reproduced to original motion geometry.

Worm gears & wheels

Lead angle, pitch and tooth form recovered. Phosphor bronze wheel recast where original was bronze.

Housings & end caps

All pilot bores, bolt patterns and sealing grooves measured and reproduced.

Sprockets & pulleys

Chain pitch and sprocket tooth form confirmed; V-groove and belt profiles matched.

Mounting brackets

Hole patterns, slot geometry and mounting faces — machined to original with tighter tolerance where needed.

What Makes Machine Part RE Complex

Industrial machine parts have features that require specialist measurement beyond general CNC turning:

  • Gear tooth recovery — module and pressure angle are not stamped on the gear; we recover them by span measurement and tooth comparator, then confirm against the mating gear. Wrong gear parameters cause noise, rapid wear and eventual failure.
  • Keyway tolerance — a keyway that is 0.05 mm too wide causes fretting; one that is 0.05 mm too tight won't assemble. Keyway width is measured and reproduced to the key standard, not to the worn dimension.
  • Spline fits — involute splines have multiple controlled parameters (major diameter, minor diameter, tooth thickness, form error). We measure all of them.
  • Hardening and case depth — we note where a surface shows signs of heat treatment and recommend equivalent heat treatment on the replacement.

Equipment We See Most Often

  • Packaging and form-fill-seal machinery (cam plates, drive shafts, indexing gears)
  • Conveyor and transfer systems (drive pulleys, gearbox shafts, sprockets)
  • CNC lathes and machining centres (spindle components, turret index gears)
  • Hydraulic and mechanical presses (eccentric shafts, clutch hubs, brake discs)
  • Textile and paper machinery (dobby shafts, cam followers, worm drives)
  • Food processing equipment (stainless drive shafts, auger shafts, conveyor rollers)

Foreign machinery is not a problem. We see British, German, Italian, Japanese and Chinese equipment regularly. We work from the physical parts, not from documentation, so the language of the original manual has no effect on our ability to reverse engineer and reproduce the components.

Process

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Send the failed part and photos of the machine

Context about the machine and the role of the part helps us make the right material and tolerance decisions. Worn parts are fine — see from a sample.

02

CMM and specialist measurement

Shafts measured on V-blocks and CMM. Gears by span measurement and tooth comparator. Keyways and splines by gauge. All worn features restored to design intent.

03

CAD reconstruction and drawing

Full parametric model and engineering drawing. Heat treatment, material, surface finish all specified. Free — included with the quote.

04

You confirm before we cut

Review the drawing and flag anything you recognise from experience with the machine. Upgrades requested at this stage.

05

Machine and inspect

CNC turned, milled and gear-cut. Heat treated if specified. Inspected on CMM. Shipped with report.

Frequently Asked Questions

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Yes. We measure the span across multiple teeth to recover the module and pressure angle, then reconstruct the involute profile from those parameters. Moderately worn flanks are usually recoverable; heavily worn gears may need the mating gear as a cross-reference.

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Yes. We work from the physical parts, not documentation. Language on the machine nameplate or manual doesn't affect our ability to measure and reproduce the components. We see this regularly with European, Japanese and Chinese machinery.

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Yes. Common upgrades: higher carbon steel for hardened shafts, alloy steel for gears subject to impact, duplex stainless for components in wet or corrosive environments. We present the material options at the CAD review stage.

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A quote in 24 hours after seeing the part or photos. For a typical machined shaft, production after approval is 5–10 working days. Gears with tooth cutting add 3–5 days. Complex housings requiring milling fixtures may take 10–15 days.

Machine Down? Get the Part Made.

Worn gear, broken shaft, missing coupling — send the sample and we reproduce it. No drawing needed. Quote in 24 hours.

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