The OEM stopped making it. The supplier is gone. We reproduce obsolete and discontinued parts from your sample, the mating assembly, or any documentation that survives — and often improve on the original.
When a part goes obsolete, every failure becomes a crisis. There is no part on a shelf, no OEM to call, no cross-reference to a current equivalent. The machine sits idle and the cost accumulates by the hour. Customers come to us specifically because the normal supply chain has no answer.
We reproduce obsolete parts regularly. The process is direct: measure what survives, reconstruct what doesn't, confirm the geometry with you, manufacture, and ship.
The most difficult scenario is when there is nothing left to measure — the part failed completely and was discarded, or was never retained. We work through this systematically:
| Original failure mode | Upgrade option | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Worn bearing surface | Case harden or hard chrome the journal | Longer service life at same geometry |
| Cracked at a stress point | Increase fillet radius, switch to ductile iron or alloy steel | Eliminates the original failure mode |
| Corroded in service | Upgrade to 316 stainless or bronze | Resists environment that destroyed the original |
| Plastic worn or broken | Machine in bronze or acetal (Delrin) | Significantly longer wear life |
| Exact OEM replica needed | No change — reproduce exactly | Drop-in replacement, fully interchangeable |
Make spares while you're at it. Once we have the CAD for a previously obsolete part, making 2–3 spares from the same setup costs a fraction of the first piece. It means the next failure doesn't put you back to square one. We recommend it for every obsolete part job.
What failed, what equipment it came from, what you still have — part, photos, mating assembly, manual pages. We assess the best reconstruction route.
Measurement of the sample or mating parts, photograph analysis, manual interpretation. All sources are used and cross-checked.
CAD model built. Every dimension derived from inference (not direct measurement) is flagged in the drawing for your review. Nothing is hidden.
Review the drawing. Correct any inferences you recognise from knowledge of the machine. Specify upgrades if desired. We revise and confirm before cutting.
Part made, inspected to the approved drawing, shipped with inspection report and CAD file. Spares from the same run at marginal cost.
Yes. We reproduce the part from your sample, from mating components, from old manual diagrams, or from whatever remains. We do not need the original manufacturer's cooperation, drawings or tooling.
We work from the components the part interfaces with — the bore it sat in, the shaft it drove, the housing it sealed. Dimensions are derived indirectly and confirmed against the assembly before we manufacture. This works for a surprising proportion of lost originals.
Often worth considering. If the original failed in a predictable way — wear on a specific surface, corrosion in a particular area, cracking at a stress concentration — we can address it in the reproduction. Switching from cast iron to ductile iron, plastic to bronze, or adding a hard-chrome surface are common upgrades at negligible extra cost.
One piece. There is no minimum order on machined parts. We recommend making 2–3 spares from the same setup so the next failure doesn't put you back to square one, but one is a perfectly valid order.
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