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Repair, overhaul and full refurbishment.

When the problem is the machine rather than the tooling. We work on riveting and clinching machines that their original manufacturers no longer support.

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Scope

Three levels of work.

Which one you need is usually clear from what the machine is doing. If it is not clear, describe the symptoms and we will tell you what we think it is.

Level 01

Repair

A specific fault on an otherwise sound machine. Something has broken, seized, drifted out of adjustment, or stopped feeding. Fix the fault, prove it out, send it back to work.

Level 02

Overhaul

The machine still runs, but everything is tired — sloppy, noisy, inconsistent, dropping rivets. Worn parts come out, wear surfaces are addressed, and the machine is set back up and tested.

Level 03

Full refurbishment

The same process we put our own resale machines through: worn parts replaced, the machine repainted, tested, and documented with a tooling information sheet before it goes back out.

What a refurbishment includes

The same standard we sell to.

B&B buys machines out of auctions and plant closures, refurbishes them, and resells them. A customer machine that comes in for a full refurbishment goes through the same shop process.

Worn parts
Replaced. This is where the years actually went — the wear items and the parts that have been running out of tolerance long enough that the operator stopped noticing.
Paint
Repainted. Partly appearance, largely because a clean machine is one you can see faults on.
Test
Run and tested before it leaves the shop.
Tooling information sheet
Documented with the tooling and consumables the machine takes, so the next person who has to buy an anvil for it does not start from nothing. This is the single most useful piece of paper on an out-of-production machine.

Scope and cost depend entirely on the machine and its condition, so we quote per machine after seeing it or seeing photographs. We do not publish flat rates for work that varies this much.

Reference

How we grade condition.

The internal grading we use on our own inventory. It is a useful shorthand for describing your machine to us, too — pick the letter that sounds closest.

Grade A
Refurbished and ready to run.
Grade B
Working, but needs cosmetic attention.
Grade C
Parts machine.
Grade D
As-is.
Service request

Request a service quote.

Describe the machine and the symptom. As with parts, you do not need the model number.

Send us the details by email

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  • Machine make, and model or serial if you have it
  • What it is doing wrong, and when it started
  • Whether the machine is currently running
  • Where the machine is
  • Photos, and a short video of the fault if you can take one
  • Your name, company, and the best number to reach you on

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1. The machine

Fields marked * are required.

Using the A–D grades above. A guess is fine.
2. What is wrong
What it does, when it started, whether anything changed just before — a new rivet, a new operator, a tooling change, a move.
The whole machine, the nameplate, and the area that is giving trouble. A short video of the fault happening is worth a page of description — email that separately if it is too large.
3. Where to send the quote
City and state, province or country. It affects freight, which affects the answer.

We use these details to assess the job and to contact you about it. Nothing else.

It only needs tooling

Anvils, jaws, pockets, drivers and machine spares.

Parts & tooling

It is not worth repairing

We buy machines in any condition, including parts machines.

Sell us a machine

You need a replacement

Refurbished machines are listed and sold on our main site.

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