Boring Research LLC is a rapid prototyping and manufacturing small business. Our core business started in developing precision tooling for machinists and gunsmiths. In recent years we been moving more into helping other companies with their R&D demands in the areas of automotive, sporting goods, and tooling. We can take a concept and move it into a prototype and then connect you with a partner for mass manufacturing.
We had a customer come to us asking to machine a helical gear out of nylon for an out of production brake lathe. The gear if done via traditional machining would take quite a bit of time and would limit production capacity. There was also established a need for replacements in the market. We designed up a replacement and ordered prototypes to be made in various nylon composites. The customer tried them for fit and then we connected them with the manufacture directly to order more.
In this case a manufacture was taking surplus superchargers and retrofitting them to existing engines of the same brand. We designed a series of parts that would take the same surplus supercharger and allow it to be reused on another brand of engine that was the second most popular in the market at the time. They had in house manufacturing, so we aided in building the prototypes and they took it from there
We utilize Autodesk products for most of our computer aided design and manufacturing. This software allows for simulation and to build a virtual prototype before material is used. We also have software we can use for virtual stress and flow analysis.
We have several CNC machines were we run prototypes. These enable us to cut almost any material either by turning or milling it in up 4 axis.
We employ several 3d printers for different purposes from FDM to SLA depending on the material needs. We also have partnerships for production scale printing, and molding. This is often cheaper for the first prototype and is used before subtractive machining is done.