My machine goes “clang-bwom”. Can you fix it?

Combining more than five decades of experience in machining repair with a childlike curiosity, Angel is a guy who will always take this question seriously.

“It’s broken. Can you fix it?”
Yes, unless it’s a relationship, we probably can.

Who are we?
The humans in a family owned machine shop in Chicago, who love, repair, run, and design machines. Keeping them in the best working order is much more than our job. It’s a lifelong passion.

Small machines, big ones like the one in the photo here…. New and ancient ones…
Every day brings a new challenge.

Our typical work day starts with a client, who brings a box with various parts and a request – “Can you fix this? I need it for yesterday.”
No scale drawings, templates, or blueprints – a lot of the machines we work on are even older than Angel. Nobody remembers where the blueprints are…

This blog will hopefully be helpful for you, dear reader, who, like us, “repaired” a lot of toys in their childhood, because “I wanted to understand how it works”.

Or for the young mechanic, who needs professional advice from a human, not from a computer program.
Or for anyone who loves to learn new things…

Here we will post not only the most challenging cases from our long career, but we will try to preserve the knowledge, accumulated over half a century in the field of machining repair.

Thank you for reading.
We hope you never lose your curiosity, sense of humor, and everything else that makes you human.

Photo:

The Iron Giant, aka “The Crusher” – this testing machine in Talbot Lab, The Grainger College of Engineering, was used for its last public demonstration by one of our employees, who studies engineering in UIUC.

Regretfully, this beautiful machine will be retired and replaced with a computer program…

We know how it feels.

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