Custom Rubber Parts From a drawing, a sample, or just a problem
You do not need a finished drawing to start. Send us whatever you have, and we will work out the part, the compound and the tooling.
Send us whatever you have
Any one of these is enough to begin.
The quickest and the preferred method.
Even a worn or broken one. We reverse engineer parts regularly, imported ones included.
With a note on where the part fits.
Tell us what the part has to do, or what keeps going wrong, and we will take it from there.
A shredded part, and 48 hours
The oddest job we remember was a replacement part for a machine imported from the USA. It came to us badly shredded, along with the place it fitted. We made the drawing, the tooling and the part in about 48 hours. The customer was overjoyed by the downtime we saved him.
Test-fit before you pay for tooling
For prototypes we cut soft tooling in aluminium, or sometimes mild steel, because it is quicker than a production mould.
We also 3D print parts in TPU with the hardness matched to the rubber you will use, so you can test-fit the shape before any die or mould is made. We do not print in rubber itself.
For a simple part, the first article is usually ready in about a week.
Design help, NDAs and what we do not do
Imported parts are reverse engineered and made here, often for less than it costs to import them.
- Design help
- Depends on the project; usually free when it leads to an order
- NDAs
- Yes, we sign them
- First article
- About a week for a simple part
- Tooling
- Moulds and dies designed and cut in-house
- Not offered
- One-off rubber-to-metal bonded parts
Custom parts
A drawing, a sample, a 3D model, a photo, or just a description of what the part has to do. Any one is enough to start.
Send us the problem
A drawing, a sample, a photo or a short description is enough. We will tell you how we would make it.