R&D Fab & Welding

Contact: Tim Williams 510-486-4902

The R&D Fab & Welding performs specialized sheet metal work for research and development experimental equipment. The Sheet Metal Shop is available to handle precision cutting, forming and joining of thin materials. Equipped with several press brakes, shears, punches, forming rolls, nibblers and a spot welder, the Sheet Metal Shop can handle forming and joining of a wide variety of materials including steel, stainless steel, copper, brass, aluminum, tantalum, titanium and others.

The shop is also equipped with a modular weld fixturing table that allows for set-up and workholding of complex assemblies without the requirement for special tooling.

An inert-atmosphere, glove-box welding system is also available that allows for very delicate welds in a clean atmosphere.

A metal spinning lathe is available for fabrication of relatively thin, axially symmetric parts such as hemispheres, radii, cones, cylinders and more complex shapes consisting of combinations of the basic shapes.

Weld Shop:

The Weld Shop is fully equipped to handle welding fabrication projects both large and small. Typical materials welded include steel, stainless steel and aluminum. Processes include:

• SMAW (Stick welding)
• GTAW (Tungsten Torch welding)
• GMAW (Wire Feed welding)
• Oxy/Acetylene
• Carbon Arc Plasma Cutting

The shop’s equipment includes:
• Marvel Automatic cut-off saw
• Shear
• Iron Worker
• Marvel Bandsaw
• Large Bandsaw
• MIG welders
• TIG welders
• Plasma Arc Cutting
• Rolls

Typical welded fabrications include beamline component support stands, piping systems, brackets, overhead support structures and rail-mount transport systems

• Precision cutting, forming, and joining of thin materials
• Metal spinning
• Inert-atmosphere glove-box welding that allows for very delicate welds in a clean atmosphere.
• TIG/MIG Welding
• TIG Brazing