News From CMF
Sparks Are Flying
Sparks are flying at Commercial Metal Fabricators. Give us a call for your next metal fabricating job.
Take a Video Tour of CMF
Join us on a video tour of Commercial Metal Fabricators. Or give us a call to schedule an in-person tour. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIlR7v8LKew
Ballistic Research “Blast Tank”
This will become a “blast tank” for use by researchers for testing ballistic material at military research centers and universities. Here, we're working on it with our TOS WHQ 15 horizontal boring mill. It is being fabricated with 3/4” thick rolled plate with 1-1/2”...
Component for a Large Test Fixture
We're working on component of a large test fixture that will have military applications when finished. It is being built with 5” thick 6061-T6 aluminum plate that is 66' by 89” and milled on our TOS boring mill.
Tank for Food Processing
When finished, this tank will be used in the food rendering and processing industry. It's a large fabrication made from rolled 1/4” stainless steel plate with step formed cone bottom. It has a 12 foot outside diameter and is 25 feet long. The tank is welded inside and...
Count the Processes – Part 2
Time for another game of count the processes! Today's contestants are two separate pieces that will be combined at a later stage. Show off your metalworking knowledge by telling us how you would make them.
Our New Video
Our specialists and our equipment in action. Commercial metal fabricating, machining and forming. https://youtu.be/eIlR7v8LKew
Count the processes
It's time for a game of count the processes! Take a look at these two pieces on our shop floor and see if you can see what metalworking processes we used to create them. There is a ratchet wrench on one of them for scale.
LVD Strippit 5 kW Laser High Speed Processing Center – Axel 3015
Our Strippit HD Plasma cutter has a lot of great features – a large plate capacity of 60” x 120”, a 5kW laser that lets us cut plate thickness up to one inch and integrated Fanuc controls. But what really makes this machine a workhorse is that automatic shuttle tables...
Air Cannons
To build these devices, we have to rely on pretty much every skill our crew has here at CMF - laser cutting, rolling, machining, welding, programming and engineering. What are they? They are air cannons that are used for materials testing. Our clients use them for...
Plasma Cutter
Our Challenger HD plasma cutter is quite valuable for high-production cutting applications. It has a time-proven design that let's us count on it in demanding production situations. The dual-side drive system rides on precision machined and hardened tongue-in-groove...
CMF From the Air
Commercial Metal Fabricators has 53,000 square feet of manufacturing space on nine acres. Inside, we have 18' foot high bays, all of it covered by cranes with a maximum of 12 tons lift. We're just minutes from Interstates 75, 70 and 675 and US 35. [gallery columns="2"...
Stainless Steel Weldment
We built this stainless steel machined weldment used in high pressure pump application. The unit was H-D Plasma and Waterjet cut, cone segment formed in 400 ton press brake , M.I.G. welded 100 percent, then finished machined to customer drawings. [gallery...
Rolled Cylinders
We're working on a set of about a dozen rolled 11 gauge mild steel cylinders.
Loader Arm
We helped our client fabricate this loader arm that is used on forestry equipment.
Mild Steel Fabrication
Some mild steel fabrication for a customer. This will be used in the pump processing industry.
“Fluid Dynamics”
Yellow Springs sculptor Jon Barlow Hudson asked us to help him bring his sculpture called "Fluid Dynamics" to life. The sculpture is installed on Patterson Blvd., in Dayton, Ohio, at a site that was formerly next to the Miami-Erie Canal. Our team worked with the...
BAE Fixture
Designed, engineered and fabricated at Commercial Metal Fabricators, this is a QC fixture for checking welding on truck frames for the military.
Machining QC Test Fixture for the Military
Working closely with our client, our team created this QC text fixture for use in military applications. The machine frame held plus/minus .005 tolerance.
Machined “A” Plate
These are typical examples of parts that were fabricated and machined to become finished parts. After the plates and other pieces were plasma cut and the bars saw cut, the basic parts were formed and welded. They were then stress relieved. A program was developed to...
Pump Housings
Most of these pump housings are machined from exotic metal castings, stainless steels to titanium. They have a sophisticated shape and are finished to precision tolerances. We machine these units on our Tos Hulin "Live Tool" VTL where we produce the front and back...
Machined Aluminum Plate
This interesting part was machined complete on the Tos Hulin "Live Tool" Vertical Lathe. This is a dial plate for an indexing application mounted to a Camco gear box. The part is 1" thick aluminum, 57" in diameter with 150 , .515" wide radial slots and 600, .375"...
Horizontal Boring Mill, Machining a Big Aluminum Disk
This part is an aluminum disk, 84" diameter, 2-1/2" thick. There are 7 large diameter holes and counterbores, all circular interpolated. There are 50 holes drilled and tapped, 6 special pockets, and the outside diameter finished. The machine on which this part is...
Propane Tank Skid
This propane tank skid was designed, engineered and fabricated at Commercial Metal Fabricators for the storage and transportation of large propane gas tanks.
Water Tank Vent
Commercial Metal Fabricators created this from 1/2" aluminum plate,100 percent M.I.G. welded. This vent was designed for use with a municipal water tank.
Design Build Special Equipment Project
For the U.S. Post Office Bulk Mail Center. Designed by CMF to interface with existing Post Office equipment. Design complete, hydraulic, electric, mechanical, interface. Complete construction. A typical design/build project requiring the full range of CMF resources....
View from the top – Smokestack
This 300 foot tall, 10 foot diameter smoke stack was built in three sections and transported to Connecticut where it was erected and the sections were welded together. This picture was taken from the hook of the erection crane, looking down at the top of the stack and...
Electrical Control Cabinet – Three Door – in construction
The precision of the laser, the accuracies of a CNC press brake and the skill of the CMF fabricator combine to produce this custom enclosure. Shown during construction and without the three doors installed, the photo reveals some of the interior intricacies that these...
Enclosure – Manufactured & Painted
CMF produces hundreds of specialized enclosures for use in many applications, mechanism covering, hydraulic unit packaging and electrical are typical of those uses. This typical enclosure was required to manufactured with some unique shapes and finished in a high...
25,000 Gallon Storage Tank
This tank was designed and built to a customer's custom specifications. Made from 5/16" mild steel plate using X-ray quality welds. CMF has been building tanks of various sizes and materials for all kinds of applications since 1941. More than just tanks, CMF can...
