Services
Custom manufacturing & prototyping
Functional parts made to order: one-off replacements, prototype iterations and small-batch runs, across the full range of engineering thermoplastics.
What we make
- Functional replacement parts: clips, brackets, mounts, knobs, housings
- Prototype iterations during product development
- Low-volume production: tens of parts, repeatably, without tooling costs
- Fixtures, jigs and workshop aids for your own processes
What we don't
- Parts outside sensible FDM limits — where another process is right, we'll say so rather than force it
- Copies of parts whose design rights prevent reproduction
Quotes & lead times
Pricing follows material, print time and finishing work; quantity brings the unit price down. Typical lead time is days, not weeks — confirmed per job when we quote, and we only commit to dates we can hold.
Materials we run
- PLA
- Stiff and dimensionally precise for indoor, low-temperature work: organisers, fixtures, visual prototypes.
- PLA-CF
- Carbon-filled PLA. Stiffer and more dimensionally stable than plain PLA, with a matte finish. Jigs and fixtures that must not flex.
- PETG
- The functional default: tough, more temperature-tolerant than PLA, slightly flexible. Brackets, clips, enclosures.
- PETG-CF
- Carbon-filled PETG. Noticeably stiffer with less creep under sustained load. Structural brackets and mounts.
- ABS
- Higher service temperature, and it solvent-bonds and vapour-smooths. Enclosures and warmer environments.
- ASA
- ABS's UV-stable relative. Outdoor and automotive-exterior parts that have to keep their colour and their strength.
- TPU
- Flexible. Gaskets, bushes, grommets and anti-vibration mounts: parts that should absorb movement rather than resist it.
Specifying the material is our job, not a question we hand back to you. Tell us the application and the environment and we will choose it — and say plainly if FDM is the wrong process for the part.
Fit & functional evaluation
For replacement parts we work iteratively: a first article checks fit against the real application, dimensions are corrected, and only then is the batch produced. You see and approve the fit before quantity is printed.
Have a part in mind?
Send dimensions, files or photos and we'll quote it — or tell you straight if it isn't a job for additive manufacturing.