Brackets, mounts, guards, plates and one off components in steel, stainless or aluminum. Measured and built for the job rather than ordered and made to almost fit.
4.9 50 reviews from Cleveland customers
Rated with the BBBArc Wheels Welding LLC, since 2023
Black ownedIndependent shop on Cleveland's southeast side
Fabrication work arrives one of two ways. Either the part does not exist, because it was discontinued or was never made for what you are putting it on, or the part exists and is wrong. Too weak, too expensive, wrong dimensions, or built for a load lighter than the one you are actually putting through it.
Both end in the same place, which is somebody measuring the space, understanding what the part has to survive, and building it. That second step is the one that gets skipped most often. A bracket that copies the original exactly will fail exactly the way the original did.
Engine and accessory mounts, especially on swaps and on vehicles old enough that the parts supply has dried up.
Equipment plates, machine guards and mounting hardware for shops and contractors where the off the shelf option does not line up with anything.
Skid plates, brackets and protection for vehicles that work rather than commute.
Notches, tubs, crossmembers and clearance work on builds.
Replacement parts copied from a broken original, improved at the point where the original broke.
The single most useful thing you can bring is the part that failed. Not because it is a template, though it helps, but because the way it broke tells you where it was under stressed.
A bracket cracked through a bolt hole was too thin at the hole. One that tore at a weld had the wrong weld or no gusset. One that bent in the middle needed a rib. Copying it faithfully reproduces the fault, which is why a fabricated replacement should be measurably different from the original in exactly one place.
If the original is gone, a photo with something for scale next to it, plus the measurements of the space it has to fit, is enough to start.
Anything that needs certified structural sign off for a building or a lift. Structural modification to buildings and load bearing equipment is a different trade with a different stamp, and that gets referred on.
Yes, and that is the best way to do it. The break shows where the original was weakest, which is where the replacement gets reinforced. A perfect copy of a failed part is a part that will fail again.
Yes. A single bracket is a normal job here and there is no minimum that makes it not worth doing.
A sketch on paper is fine. So is a photo with a tape measure next to it. Nothing needs to be to scale as long as the critical dimensions are on there.
Steel, stainless and aluminum. Which one depends on what the part has to survive, what it bolts to, and whether corrosion or weight is the bigger problem.
Most quotes come back the same day the shop is open. Free, no obligation, and if it cannot be repaired you will hear that straight.
