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Projects that show how we design, cut, form and weld - from one-off prototypes to repeat production.
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Projects that show how we design, cut, form and weld - from one-off prototypes to repeat production.
Laser-cut steel brackets ready for bending, tapping, welding and setting - Wheeler Fabrications really is your one-stop shop for fabrication, welding and design.
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Just a few of the Load Bear brackets that were going out - inspected, labelled and packed ready for dispatch from Birmingham.
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Mass-produced components, all laser cut in stainless steel and stacked ready for forming and rolling.
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Stainless steel frameworks skillfully fabricated and TIG welded, then dressed to a nice finish - from our Birmingham workshop.
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High-end bathroom panels, brackets and enclosures - all laser cut and folded from 240 grit stainless steel, formed and protected in rubber-lined dies.
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Design, development, assembly, welding and dressing all under one roof - curved dining table bases, finished by hand, that thrilled our customer.
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High-end steps designed and fabricated with a decorative panel - a recent commission that shows how flexible we are for every customer.
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Production nests profiled on the laser, large runs of folded brackets and simple blanks in a range of materials - bread-and-butter work from our Birmingham workshop.
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Guards for AAH Pharmaceuticals, back from a successful dry fit and ready for TIG welding at our Birmingham workshop.
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Bespoke fabricated trays TIG welded in 5083 aluminium and given a gentle polish - a recent job from our Birmingham workshop.
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Commercial bathroom hardware laser cut and folded with a protective coating, processed with special tooling so the faces stay unmarked.
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Dedicated QC and dispatch areas on the factory floor - finished jobs checked, packed and labelled before they leave Birmingham.
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A staircase to be mounted over a garden pond - still in the early stages of production, from CAD and drawings to the first welded frame.
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Industrial magnet cases going through production with job folders at each stage - laser, fold, weld and finish from our Birmingham workshop.
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Thousands of industrial shims for shop-fitting companies - identical L-shaped blanks, laser cut in volume at our Birmingham workshop.
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Playground slides fabricated and rolled, then skillfully finished for a quality product - a recent job from our Birmingham workshop.
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A range of fabricated awning brackets for LOADBEAR - different lengths, folds and finishes, made in our Birmingham workshop.
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Heavy-duty roller shutter mounting hardware in galvanised steel, laser cut with nitrogen for a clean, burr-free edge - a production run from our Birmingham workshop.
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Rows of fabricated simple angles, nested and wrapped for dispatch - and we will make from simple folds to complex parts.
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Every fabrication starts the same way: a flat steel sheet, a nested cutting programme on the fibre laser, then the press brake to turn blanks into formed parts.
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Three brass plates, each laser cut with a different intricate pattern, stacked to make a sanatorium grill prop for a theatre production.
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Recently we had been asked if the Laser could cut large brass baffles. After designing a clamping system for the sheets to compensate for material moving due to nearly 1700 holes, we were successful in cutting 30 discs with no failures.
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As simple as brackets can be, they play an integral part to many products - they may be supporting cables or components, or holding entire assemblies together. Even the most simple of brackets will need a drawing, a starting point. We can take a sample if need be and create a…
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How we use CAD to design new sheet metal enclosures for companies that design electrical apparatus - with each part of the assembly shown in its own colour.
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We offer two types of permanent engraving to customer parts. The first is Laser engraved by the Bystronic Fibre Laser - this is ideal for part identification or for in-house instruction on bending and part handing.
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A customer whose product we had already redesigned as a sheet metal enclosure came back for a second redesign - this time with features that had not been possible before.
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We are always happy to take an existing product and reverse engineer it using Radan, no matter how ugly a lump of metal is dropped on the bench.
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With over 30 years of experience in sheet metal fabrication and laser cutting, and our in-house CAD team, we can take products from sketches or ideas to prototype and large production runs in hours if needed. In this case a valued customer needed a CAD model, samples and 1200…
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A successful fabrication and welding facility should be diverse, highly skilled and adaptable.
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It proves that with a little thought and some simple retrofit clamps we can achieve high tolerance precision cutting. Although we quote +/- 0.15mm with offsets applied, these 3mm and 6mm plates are well within that - in fact the hole sizes are +/- 0.05mm.
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It's always a problem when only 2 or 3 very detailed parts are required in very expensive materials such as 6mm brass plate, but with a little thought and an adaptive engineer's approach, challenges like this can be manufactured to the highest standards with zero scrap.
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A run of more than 100 pressure vessels, TIG welded on a rotary jig with a full gas purge for a blemish-free internal finish - and every one inspected.
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Industrial Laser Solutions featured our switch to a 3kW Bystronic fibre laser - including a stainless steel job that went from four days on our old CO2 laser to under six hours.
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I think it's quite obvious on this occasion who our customer is. We have built strong relationships up over the years with many of our customers, and when we were contacted on this particular project which had an incredibly tight deadline, we were there with our full support.
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A fully TIG-welded, watertight reservoir in 1.5mm stainless steel, mounted on 12mm stainless bar - all formed and manufactured in-house.
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We run three different sheet metal software programs and can offer you full design capabilities for any product you require.
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