Category: Fab Shop Tips

To Buy New, or To Buy Used? That Is the Question Which is the better choice for a fabrication shop—buying new or used machines? The answer, frankly, is “yes”—both are better choices in different circumstances. While modern fab shops may want to have the best and the brightest new machines on their floor to show […]

Foundational Principles A metal fabrication business can get started in a number of ways: a fabricator employed at another shop decides to launch off on their own; a home hobbyist realizes he can make money doing work for others; or perhaps an HVAC contractor wants to explore opportunities by working with heavier materials. Sometimes a […]

Time to Upgrade You’re a fabricator working on old equipment that you know isn’t very efficient and suspect may actually be a death-trap waiting to be sprung. How do you convince your boss that just maybe it would be a good idea to upgrade to a new, more up-to-date machine? You could try kicking and […]