Precision Machining / Parts Manufacturing
- Traditional Lathe work
- Vertical Milling / Production Drilling
- Horizontal Production Milling & Jig Boring
- Through-hardening and tempering of tool steels
- Internal and external threading
- Broaching
- Glassworking (soft glass, lead glass, borosilicate, quartz fiber)
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Precision grinding and polishing:
- Aluminium oxide grinding (metals)
- Diamond grinding (glass, ceramics, carbide, non-metals)
- Lapping and polishing
- Stoning / Polishing
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Precision Balancing
- For Shafts, Fans, Rotors, Impellers, Propellers, Flywheels, etc
- Capacity: 1000 lbs, 20" swing
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Sheet metal work:
- Punching & Fine Blanking (100 Ton)
- Deep Drawing (forms up to 4" deep)
- Metal Spinning (up to 12" dia.)
- Maximum sheet width: 48" (1219mm)
- V-Notching capacity: 6" (152mm)
- Winding of coils / filaments / elements
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Printed Circuit Boards
- Capacity per batch: 1000 sq.in of surface (dual-sided)
- Dual-sided layers with vias
- Laminated photopolymer exposition
- Minimum via diameter: 0.4mm (1/64")
- CNC drilling / milling up to 45,000 rpm
Vacuum Processing
- Fabrication of glass electron tubes
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Thin-film deposition
- Ion-beam deposition
- Thermal evaporation
- Vacuum degassing
- Vacuum brazing
- Ion milling
Electronics Engineering
- PCB design, fabrication and assembly
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Available instruments:
- Spectrum Analyzer HP 8566A (100Hz - 22GHz)
- Analog Curve Tracer (Tektronix 576)
- Dynamic Signal Analyzer (HP 35660A)
- Multimeter HP 3457A (6-1/2 digits)
- Analog and Mixed-Signal Oscilloscopes (100MHz)
- Precision LCR meter (100Hz ~ 10kHz)
- USB Protocol Analyzer (USB Chief)
- Firewire Protocol Analyzer (FireInspector)
- PCI/PCI-X Protocol Analyzer (Agilent)
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Programmable Power Supplies:
- Advance HiVolt 400 (4kV 75mA)
- HP / Agilent 6621A (voltage std)
- Ion Tech MPS-3000
- Perkin Elmer (10kV 10mA)
- Sorensen / Xantrex XT-30 (30V 2A) x 4
- Xantrex XKW 60-50 (60V 50A)
- Xantrex XKW 40-75 (40V 75A)
Parts Cleaning
- Abrasive blasting
- Ultrasonic degreasing (solvent-free)
- Parts cleaning with ultrapure solvents and acids
- Vapor degreasing with chlorinated solvents
- Ion milling
Parts Finishing
- Lapping/polishing, hand scraping
- Bead blasting
- Aluminium anodizing
- Copper and nickel plating
- Chemical polishing / electropolishing
- Powder coating
Welding and Brazing
- TIG welding
- Hydrogen / controlled-atmosphere brazing
- Resistance spot welding
- Flash welding of wire (end-to-end)
- Spray welding (Rototec process)
Mini-Foundry
- Sand casting
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Crucible casting:
- Metals: Aluminium, Brass, Bronze, Zinc, Precious Metals
- Capacity: 32lbs (14Kg) of red brass
Microscope work
- Micromanipulation lathe
- Micro-tools, micro-torch
- Glass / optical fiber work with CO2 laser
Material Testing & Analysis
- Inverted optical / metallographic microscope
- Electropolisher (Buehler)
- Polariscope
- Thickness measurement equipment
- Tensile test equipment
- Compressive strength test equipment
- Small centrifuge
- HPLC (high-performance liquid chromatograph)
- GC-MS with simple quadrupole
- LC-MS with APCI/ESI ionization (Waters Micromass)
