Milling is a cutting process used in the engineering industry. A cutter rotates to remove material from a workpiece to provide the required surfaces, angles, holes, slots, radii etc.

Manual Turning is the process in which a cutting tool shapes a rotating workpiece usually for cylindrical objects, When turning, the workpiece is rotated and a is traversed along 1, 2, or 3 axes of motion to produce precise diameters and depths. Turning can be either on the outside of the cylinder or on the inside, known as boring to produce tubular components to various geometries, lathes can also be used to produce complex geometric figures.

Surface grinding is the most common of the grinding operations. It is a finishing process that uses a rotating abrasive wheel to produce a highly accurate flat surface on metallic or nonmetallic components usually used when materials need to be in a hard state such as gauges or highly wear resistant components, surface grinding provides a highly accurate finishing process that can not usually be achieved in milling applications due to hardness of materials.

Cylindrical grinding is an operation used to shape the outside of an object where the material is hard and a high degree of accuracy is required. The cylindrical grinder can work on a variety of shapes, however the object must have a central axis of rotation. This includes but is not limited to such shapes as a cylinder, an ellipse, a cam, or a crankshaft.

TIG stands for tungsten inert gas and is technically called gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW). The process uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode that delivers the current to the welding arc. The tungsten and weld puddle are protected and cooled with an inert gas, typically argon.

MIG welding is an arc welding process in which a continuous solid wire electrode is fed through a welding gun and into the weld pool, joining the two base materials together. A shielding gas is also sent through the welding gun and protects the weld pool from contamination. In fact, MIG stands for metal inert gas.

Bench work has its own essential position in all engineering works.

Components often require hand operations to be done on them to finish to the desired accuracy or fit to function, a fitter’s work is unavoidable when different parts are to be assembled in position after they have been finished, alignment of machine parts, bearings, engine slide valves and similar other works call for a fitter’s work

At Black Rose Engineering we can produce one off components to print or design on the fly components to facilitate a customers specific engineering challenges, we have skills ranging across all machining, fitting and welding processes to fully support new project development or even making a small component for small hobbyist projects, no project is too small.

At Black Rose Engineering we can repair a wide range of components made from various materials, using such techniques as weld repair and re machine also we can produce as new components from samples provided, keeping your production running whilst new components are machined in the background.

At Black Rose Engineering we can produce machining/checking jigs and fixtures to print or design and make them to suit a physical supplied sample thus reducing the cost of up front design and cutting down on lead time for fast paced or short deadline projects, we can also produce spares or repair current fixtures to customer specific requirements.