Darling Downs Fitting Turning And Restoration

Drilling is offered either in the workshop or with a mobile service using either compressors or electric generators. We don’t do huge drilling work but will drill up to 25 mm diameter holes through wood, steel and other metals including plastics.

If clients have anything broken or in need of repair or need something made or to get something going or be as good as new then try our services.

We have metal lathes that range from machines that will handle a small job that is 2 to 3 mm in diameter and lengths up to 3 to 4 metres. At the other end of our services we have a lathe that has 110mm spindle bore and can take materials 1200mm in diameter and 300 wide or 225 mm diameter and 2500mm long over the apron, 3 to 4 metres in length if it is 100mm or less in diameter. We also have milling machines and a shaper that can do keyways and machine angles and flats on all types of materials such as steel, wood, brass and plastics etc. Tool cutter grinder and a tool post grinder are also available.

We can dismantle any type of work and repair it to be as good as new or close to new. Tapping and screwing threads , bushes fitted, filing, drilling or making a really unusual part that needs hand finishing to make it fit, air grinding and de-burring metal so it will work and or fit.

We have a 250amp MIG welder that can weld steel up to 12 mm in thickness, can also convert it to aluminium to do aluminium work also. Have gas welding and heating oxy-acetylene portable capabilities. Stick welding also can be offered. The stick arc welding and gas welding is offered as a mobile service that uses generators and portable gas bottles making it handy because welding can be done in most locations even isolated farms and country retreats.

With a fully qualified Mechanic and Fitter and Turner – Machinist and Apprentices available we can offer car repairs along with many other types of machinery repairs. No Road Worthy Certificate unfortunately-sorry.

Fully Repair and Restore items.

From cement moulds that are 5 metres long and 1 metre wide to dog crates for the ute or trailer, or that small repair to a sewing machine or toy, we can give you a good price

With a qualified Fitter–Turner-Machinist and Apprentice in the shop we can offer metal, wood and plastic machining. We have metal lathes that range from machines that will handle a small job that is 2 to 3 mm in diameter and lengths from 1-3 mm up to 3 to 4 metres. At the other end of our services we have a lathe that has 110mm spindle bore and can take materials 1200mm in diameter and 300 wide or 225 mm diameter and 2500mm long over the apron. We also have milling machines and a shaper that can do keyways and machine angles and flats on all type of materials such as steel and brass and plastics. Tool cutter grinder and a tool post grinder are also available.

Help is at hand to listen to your ideas and help design and manufacture the item or items that you specifically need for your project. Efficiency and cost cutting is important as is of course a successful design and a completed fully functioning component or machine or crate etc.

We have a Macson no 2 a copy of the Cincinnati no 2 Tool Cutter grinder. With it a dividing head that is capable of 1 to 320 divisions if needed. Cutters of any type can be sharpened, shafts can be ground and objects can be ground flat.

Fencing to minor repairs to a house and garden or farm. Cattle yard and rural fencing can be also repaired, crates and chicken runs made, with welding and heating offered along with painting using a brush, a roller or spraying.

With a fully qualified Mechanic and Fitter Turner and Machinist available we offer reasonable rates for servicing your vehicles, whether they are cars or small trucks and smaller engines such as ride ons or stationary engines of most sizes.

Sheds that need a respray on the farm or back paddock to make them look new, or cutting rust and resprays on your older work vehicles, we can also offer a mobile service because of our generators and trailers.

This is a very handy grinder that allows clients to have shafts or internal bores ground out, possibly because they are too hard to machine with conventional turning techniques and tooling.

Mobile service to dismantle broken and leaking hoses and rams to be repaired or replaced

This machine offers clients a cheaper option that can remove metal at a much more affordable rate than would be expected. It can shape metal into flats and angles, it also can do keyways both on shafts and also in internal bores such as in pulleys. This is to name only a few uses.

We can offer cementing – concrete services for small slabs or paths up to 20 square metres.

If you need some steel cut or maybe you just need some old scrap steel gone and it needs to be cut up and removed then give us a call. The 2 pieces of steel in the photo were eventually used as support arms in a backhoe conversion to fit the entire backhoe assembly onto the back of a Massey Ferguson front end loader.

This type of welding is very portable as it uses gas bottle and it maybe taken anywhere to weld or heat and or cut metal. Brass and copper and steel can be welded and heated and bent or cut.

Drilling is offered either in the workshop or with a mobile service using either compressors or electric generators. We don’t do huge drilling work but will drill up to 25 mm diameter holes through wood, steel and other metals including plastics.

If clients have anything broken or in need of repair or need something made or to get something going or be as good as new then try our services.

We have metal lathes that range from machines that will handle a small job that is 2 to 3 mm in diameter and lengths up to 3 to 4 metres. At the other end of our services we have a lathe that has 110mm spindle bore and can take materials 1200mm in diameter and 300 wide or 225 mm diameter and 2500mm long over the apron, 3 to 4 metres in length if it is 100mm or less in diameter. We also have milling machines and a shaper that can do keyways and machine angles and flats on all types of materials such as steel, wood, brass and plastics etc. Tool cutter grinder and a tool post grinder are also available.

We can dismantle any type of work and repair it to be as good as new or close to new. Tapping and screwing threads , bushes fitted, filing, drilling or making a really unusual part that needs hand finishing to make it fit, air grinding and de-burring metal so it will work and or fit.