Tools
Weldment Tools
Three things we found ourselves writing out by hand often enough to build properly. They run entirely in your browser. Nothing you type is sent to us, there is no email gate and they work whether or not you ever contact us.
Machining allowance calculator
Work out a sensible starting range for the stock to leave on machined faces and bores, from part size, weld density, material and whether the part will be stress relieved.
Checklist, 32 itemsWeldment RFQ checklist
Everything a fabrication shop needs before it can quote your weldment without assumptions. Tick through it, print it, and the quotes you get back become comparable.
Checklist, 28 itemsSupplier audit checklist
The questions and the floor observations that separate a shop that machines weldments routinely from one that welds well and subcontracts the rest.
Why these are free and ungated
A new intermediary has no track record to point at. Gating a checklist behind an email form would buy us a contact and cost us the only thing we can actually offer first, which is being useful before you owe us anything.
If the tools are good, that tells you something about whether we understand the part. If they are not, you have lost nothing and you never gave us your address.
- Nothing is transmittedThe checklists remember your ticks in your own browser only. Clear your site data and they are gone. We never see them.
- Built to printBoth checklists print cleanly for a supplier visit or a design review.
- The reasoning is published tooEvery tool links to the guide that explains the thinking behind it, so you can disagree with us from an informed position.
Ready to send the part out?
Run it past the RFQ checklist, then send it. Free for buyers, reply within 24 business hours.