Large Steel Fabrication

Pictured is a large steel fabrication that Columbia Machine Works fabricated for one of our customers.

Fixture Fabrication

Columbia Machine Works has many years of experience in fabricating fixtures for manufacturing.

Repairing a Portable Asphalt Plant

Columbia Machine Works inspected and restored the structural integrity of this portable asphalt plant. Large fabrication work is one of our specialties.

Fabricated Pneumatic Assemblies

Pictured is one of a set of pneumatically-operated assemblies CMW fabricated and tested in-house for one of our customers.

Refurbishing 15″ Diameter Tie Bar for a Die Casting Machine

Pictured is one of the larger size of tie bars (15″ diameter) that we refurbish in our largest CNC lathe. Everything you see in this photo was machined new by Columbia Machine Works onto an existing tie bar that had broken. New tie bars, as well as most any die casting or injection molding machine components, are expensive to replace. …

Repairing an Ejector Plate for a Die Casting Machine

Columbia Machine Works repaired this ejector plate for a die casting machine. The first step was to grind the cracks out of the plate and weld them up. We then machined the closing cylinder mounting surfaces, ensuring that any welding on the cracked cylinder mounting holes were machined out. Pictured here, the next step was line boring the guide rod …

Scrap Tub Modification

Columbia Machine Works is assisting in improving the design and function of these scrap tubs via an actuator system which will take the place of the existing manually-operated process. In addition, we rebuilt the chute doors to get them back in parallel. This design will not only be an improvement on the efficiency of the system, but more importantly the …