The Engineering Research Machine Shop in JHE-115 offers a large range of services to the McMaster community.
Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
The Engineering Research Machine Shop is divided in to two distinct areas, one of which is the main shop which operates on a cost recovery basis and the other part is the Student Machine Shop.
The main machine shop provides design consultation, precision machining, welding, fitting and assembly, mainly on prototypes, custom-designed parts and repair or modification of existing equipment. We work with a broad range of metals such as aluminum, stainless steel, tool steel, lead, copper and custom alloys as well as various other materials such as Teflon, Delrin, graphite, acrylic and polycarbonate. Our strength is our many years of experience in a jobbing shop environment both here at the university and also out in industry that enables us to provide quality machining as well as recommendations for design changes as needed during a project.
Work within the shop is done on a cost-recovery basis of time plus materials with our main customers being the Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Science and the McMaster Nuclear Reactor; however we provide our services university-wide as well as to the McMaster Childrens Hospital, Innovation Park and CanMet.
The Student Machine Shop is open to all McMaster students who have taken the mandatory orientation session and is set up to assist them in projects related to their school work.