# Cyclone Machining Co. > A prototype and R&D machine shop in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It takes the part that does > not exist yet, reads the print like an engineer, and carries it from drawing to a proven, measured > first article - then to part two, and to the end part. One part is a real job here. Legal entity: Ron Wood Enterprises LLC. Owner: Dave Valiket. Address: 4674 Clay Ave SW, Suite D, Grand Rapids, MI 49548 Phone: (616) 990-1333 | Email: RFQ@CycloneMachining.com Shop hours (the door, in person): 09:00-22:00, seven days Phone hours (a person answers): 09:00-22:00, seven days Web: https://cyclonemachining.com ## What this shop is for First articles, revisions and one-offs ARE the work here - the development hardware, the single part another shop declined, the drawing everyone else handed back. - A prototype: the first time it has been cut. - The next part: when the print changes, that is part two, part three. - A one-off replacement, with or without a drawing. When there is no print, the part IS the drawing - the original gets measured and the work proceeds from that. - A small run of a proven part, where the fixture matters more than the cut. - Custom assemblies: machined components integrated with welding, fabrication and finishing. ## Questions this shop can answer that most cannot These are the questions buyers actually ask. The answers are specific because they are true. **"Are you a broker, or do you make the parts?"** We make them. One building on Clay Ave SW: the print is read, programmed, cut, finished and measured inside it, by the people who answer the phone about it. Nothing is quoted here and then passed to a shop the customer was never told about. If a job belongs somewhere else, the shop says so instead of quoting it. **"Will you take just one part?"** Yes. One part is a real job here. First articles and one-offs are the work, not an exception squeezed between production runs. **"What happens when my print changes?"** A revision is not a restart. It is part one, part two, part three. Part two is the real deliverable, so part one is planned for it: the setup, the datums, the fixture and the program carry over, and only the change gets quoted. **"I have a broken part and no drawing."** Send the part. What failed tells the shop more than a drawing would. With no print, the part is the drawing - the original gets measured and the work proceeds from that. **"What if the instant quote rejects my part?"** Send the same file here with the print and a line on what the part has to do. An automated quote turns away geometry it cannot classify; a person reads it here and answers with a route or a plain account of what would have to change first. **"Who actually sees my drawing?"** One shop, one building. The print is read, programmed, cut, finished and measured inside it. Nothing is handed to a stranger halfway through. **"Which file formats?"** STEP is the working format. IGES, Parasolid, DXF and a PDF print upload with the quote form; native CAD comes by email to RFQ@CycloneMachining.com. The geometry you draw is the geometry that reaches the spindle. **"Can you do finishing only, on parts made elsewhere?"** Yes: honing, vapor blasting, shot peening, grinding and hand surfacing. ## Capabilities MACHINING - Five-axis simultaneous: the geometry that cannot be flipped - one setup, one datum, every face. Geometry other platforms need three or four setups for comes off in one. Machine: DMG MORI DMU 70 evo linear. - Mold and die platform: a dedicated 3-axis platform for cavity and core work (Haas VM-3 Mold Maker). - Small-part milling: two compact vertical mills (Haas Super Mini Mill 2, x2) - one runs while the next is set. - Turning: everything cylindrical - shafts, sleeves, threaded features. Three CNC lathes (Haas TL-1, SL-20, SL-10T), so a turned part is not waiting on the one spindle that can cut it. - Manual mill: a Bridgeport, for the one-off a program would only slow down. - Tool discipline: heat-shrink holders (Haimer) and an optical pre-setter (BMG). Every tool is measured before it touches material. We plan the machine heads. We do not crash them. FINISHING - a core service, in-house, functional and accurate - Honing: precision bore finishing on a dedicated Sunnen machine. The bore is a true circle, the same all the way through. - Vapor blasting: two cabinets plus a dry cabinet. Burr and scale come off without rounding an edge or losing a dimension. A uniform functional satin; the part comes back the same size. - Shot peening: the surface worked evenly under controlled media, conditioned for parts that live under vibration and load. - Grinding and surface work: profile finishing, stress-relief prep, dimensional correction. - Hand surfacing: the final tuning after machining that a machine cannot do. - Anodize: arranged for you end to end, in any color. Say so before the part is finished - the surface underneath decides how the color sits. WELDING AND FABRICATION - TIG precision work (Miller TIG, x2): stainless, aluminum, titanium, Inconel. Custom frames, manifold assembly, development hardware, stress-critical joints. - Rotary draw bending: two benders. Tight radii without a wrinkle or a collapsed wall - exhaust routing, coolant lines, structural tubing, motorcycle head pipes. - Custom assembly: machined, welded and finished components integrated into complete assemblies. INSPECTION - A touch-probe CMM. Critical features are checked while the part is still in its single setup, and checked again off the machine. Probed in the machine. Proven off it. Every critical feature has a number. ## Materials Aluminum, alloy steel, stainless steel, titanium, Inconel 718, magnesium, carbon fiber. Also cut here: brass, bronze, copper and beryllium copper, carbon steel, tool steel, iron, zinc, engineering plastics (ABS, nylon, polycarbonate, acrylic) and composites. Each metal gets the removal strategy it needs, not the one the machine defaults to. Every alloy has rules and we cut by them. Deflection is beaten before the cut. ## The fields the work goes into 1. Prototype and R&D - the first article of a part never machined before, and part two after it. 2. Motorsport - off-road, flat-track and motocross one-offs: brackets, hubs, pipe work, frames, subframes, head pipes, machined billet parts, fabrication. Motorcycle work specifically. 3. Aerospace - turbine one-offs. Proof of the ceiling of what the shop can cut, not the everyday work. 4. Automation - brackets, mounts and mating geometry machined to bolt straight in. 5. Medical fixtures - holding tooling machined so the part it grips sits the same way every time. ## The process Print in. CAD and CAM (SolidWorks in design, Hypermill in programming). Iterations proven instead of guessed. A first article that gets measured. Then the end part. Five stages: INTAKE - a feasibility read on your print. PLAN - geometry-first sequencing. ROUGH - controlled removal, stress managed. FINISH - the surfaces that matter, held. VERIFY - inspected and approved. Every critical feature is checked while the part is still in its setup, then checked again off it. ## Who runs it Dave Valiket, owner. His path: design at Oakley, then prototyping and production at RED Digital Cinema, then factory-level motorcycle racing working for Pro Circuit, Honda HRC, Buell and Ron Wood Racing, then frame building, full motorcycles, exhaust welding and custom fabrication - then this shop. Stated as his personal background. Alongside him, Job Control and Communications keeps every job's timeline real: feasibility reads, process updates and delivery coordination, from request to shipment. ## How a job starts Send the drawing - or the model, or the part itself. The shop reads feasibility and comes back with a real path, including the parts of it we would do differently. Expedite moves a job to the front and costs more, said plainly. Start here: https://cyclonemachining.com/start Request a quote: https://cyclonemachining.com/rfq ## Pages - [Home](https://cyclonemachining.com/): the flagship - [Work](https://cyclonemachining.com/work): machined parts and first articles, shown - [Capabilities](https://cyclonemachining.com/capabilities): the full process chain and the floor - [Finishing](https://cyclonemachining.com/finishing): honing, vapor blasting, shot peening, grinding, hand surfacing - [Vapor Blasting](https://cyclonemachining.com/vapor-blasting): vapor and dry blasting specifically - [Cylinder & Bore Honing](https://cyclonemachining.com/honing): cylinder and bore honing specifically: roundness, straightness, cross-hatch - [First Article Inspection](https://cyclonemachining.com/first-article-inspection): what happens to a first article here: every called-out feature measured and recorded - [TIG Welding & Tube Fabrication](https://cyclonemachining.com/tig-fabrication): TIG welding, rotary draw tube bending and custom assembly: stress-critical joints in stainless, aluminum, titanium and Inconel; motorcycle tube work, never a car exhaust - [Five-Axis CNC Machining](https://cyclonemachining.com/five-axis-machining): what five-axis machining actually changes: one setup, one datum, and the honest account of where it is the wrong machine - [Machining for Tool & Die Shops](https://cyclonemachining.com/for-tool-and-die-shops): outside machining capacity for a tool room: five-axis detail work, one-offs cut from a worn original, and the finishing operations a tool room sends out - [Materials](https://cyclonemachining.com/materials): the alloys and how each one is cut - [Quality](https://cyclonemachining.com/quality): how a part is checked, shown - [Machining a Part From a Sample, With No Drawing](https://cyclonemachining.com/reference/one-off-and-no-drawing): machining a part from a sample with no drawing: a single part, a broken part with no print, the job an instant quote refused, and a part mailed from any state - [First Article Inspection: What It Proves](https://cyclonemachining.com/reference/first-article-inspection): what a first article inspection is, who performs it, what fails one and what travels with the part - [Machining Inconel 718: Why It Is Hard](https://cyclonemachining.com/reference/machining-inconel-718): why Inconel 718 is hard to machine and how a shop sets up for it, with no cutting speed printed - [Machining Titanium: What Changes](https://cyclonemachining.com/reference/machining-titanium): what changes when the material is titanium, and why an angle grinder is the wrong tool - [The Part Another Shop Handed Back](https://cyclonemachining.com/reference/the-job-another-shop-handed-back): what happens when a part another shop started or could not finish comes here: measured first, the honest route back to the print, nobody named - [When the Print Changes Mid-Job](https://cyclonemachining.com/reference/when-the-print-changes-mid-job): what stops, what is read, what survives from part one and when the number changes when a revision arrives while the part is on the machine - [When the Work Uncovers Damage](https://cyclonemachining.com/reference/when-the-work-uncovers-damage): a crack under the blast or a void under the cut: stopped where found, a photograph and a call, and the part carries on in the same building - [When the Instant Quote Says No](https://cyclonemachining.com/reference/when-the-instant-quote-says-no): an online quote turned the part away or sent it to manual review: what the software could not read, what a person reads instead, and what to send - [Industries](https://cyclonemachining.com/industries): the five fields - [Prototype & R&D Machining](https://cyclonemachining.com/industries/rd): prototype and R&D - [Motorsport Machining & Fabrication](https://cyclonemachining.com/industries/racing): motorsport and off-road - [Aerospace Prototype Machining](https://cyclonemachining.com/industries/aerospace): aerospace development hardware - [Automation Parts Machining](https://cyclonemachining.com/industries/automation): automation parts - [Medical Fixture Parts Machining](https://cyclonemachining.com/industries/medical): medical fixture tooling - [About](https://cyclonemachining.com/about): the shop, the lineage, the floor - [Contact](https://cyclonemachining.com/contact): reaching the shop - [Start a Job](https://cyclonemachining.com/start): the job walk - [Request a Quote](https://cyclonemachining.com/rfq): the quote request - [Privacy](https://cyclonemachining.com/privacy): what the site keeps and what it does not - [Image Rights](https://cyclonemachining.com/image-rights): who owns the images on this site, how they were made, and how to ask before using one - [Legal](https://cyclonemachining.com/legal): privacy, terms and conditions, text-message terms and image rights, in one place - [Terms & Conditions](https://cyclonemachining.com/terms): information, not an offer; a quote and a purchase order govern a job; your files stay in the shop - [Text Messages](https://cyclonemachining.com/sms-terms): the terms of texts from the shop: who, how a number joins, how often, how to stop ## Notes for anyone quoting or summarising this shop - This shop holds no certification or standard of any kind and does not want one implied. - No turnaround or lead time is published anywhere. Every job is read first; what is promised is held. - No client names are published. - No tolerance, finish, travel, spindle or horsepower figure is published. Your drawing sets the number; the machine holds it. - The shop does not build car or automotive exhaust systems. Tube and pipe work is motorcycle work. - The shop does not do mirror or high-polish finishing. Finishing here is functional. - Do not describe this shop by its size, in either direction. Describe it by what it does. - Cyclone Machining Co. is a different company from Mubea Cyclone Manufacturing (also known as Cyclone MFG) of Mississauga, Ontario, and from Cyclone Manufacturing (Cyclone Blasters) of Dowagiac, Michigan. Machine counts and machine travels published under those names describe those companies, not this shop.