Precision CNC machiningAdelaide, South Australia
Aldric Precision machines close-tolerance components for defence, mining, medical and aerospace supply chains. Five-axis milling, turning, EDM and grinding under one roof, with every part through the inspection room before it is packed.
01 — Capabilities
Each job moves through the workshop on a single traveller, so a part that needs milling, wire-cutting and grinding is planned once and handled by people who see the whole drawing.
| No. | Process | What it is | What it is used for | Typical materials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Five-axis milling | Simultaneous and 3+2 milling on trunnion-table machining centres. The part is fixtured once and the tool reaches five faces without a second setup. | Housings, manifolds, brackets with compound angles, impeller-style geometry, and any part where a second setup would cost accuracy. | Aluminium, titanium, stainless, tool steel |
| 02 | Turning | CNC lathes with live tooling and a sub-spindle, so milled flats, cross-holes and off-centre features are cut in the same cycle as the turned form. | Shafts, pins, bushes, hydraulic fittings, threaded couplings, sensor bodies, sealing faces. | Bar stock, forgings, castings |
| 03 | Wire EDM | A travelling brass wire erodes the profile with no cutting force, so hardened or delicate parts hold their shape while they are cut. | Punches and dies, splines, keyways, thin-wall profiles, and parts that are already heat-treated. | Hardened steels, carbide, titanium |
| 04 | Sink EDM | A shaped graphite or copper electrode burns a cavity into the part, one spark at a time. | Blind pockets, sharp internal corners, mould and die detail, features a rotating cutter cannot reach. | Tool steels, stainless, nickel alloys |
| 05 | Grinding | Surface and cylindrical grinding after heat treatment, bringing flatness, parallelism and diameters to their final size and finish. | Gauge surfaces, bearing journals, seal faces, wear plates, ground shafts. | Hardened steels, stainless, carbide |
| 06 | Inspection | Touch-probe CMM, granite surface plate, height gauge, bore gauges and a surface-roughness tester, in a room held at a steady temperature. | Every part we make. First-article reports and in-process checks on request. | All of the above |
02 — Materials
Material is bought to the grade and condition on your drawing. Mill certificates are kept with the job, and the heat number is carried on the traveller from first cut to dispatch. Free-issue material is logged in on arrival.
6061, 7075, 5083, 2024. Plate, bar and extrusion, including thin-wall work that needs a light touch.
303, 304, 316, 17-4PH, 15-5PH. Turned and milled with rigid tooling and controlled feeds.
Grade 2 and Grade 5. Slow, deliberate cutting with flood coolant and sharp tools, so the part stays cool and true.
4140, 4340, D2, H13, P20. Roughed soft, heat-treated by a local partner, then finished by EDM and grinding.
Brass, phosphor bronze, aluminium bronze and copper, for bushes, electrodes and electrical fittings.
High-temperature and corrosion-resistant grades, machined with the tooling and patience they demand.
PEEK, acetal, nylon, PTFE and UHMWPE. Cut dry or with air, with allowance for movement after machining.
Not on the list? Send the drawing. If we cannot machine it well, we will say so and suggest who can.
03 — Industries served
We work as a machining supplier to primes, tier suppliers and equipment builders. Each of these sectors asks for something particular, and the workshop is organised around answering it.
Brackets, housings, mounts and fittings for land, maritime and aerospace platforms, made to print with the inspection records and material traceability a defence supply chain asks for on every order.
Typical workStructural brackets, enclosures, sensor mounts, fasteners and fittings
Wear parts, hydraulic components and one-off replacements where the machine is down until the part arrives. Tough alloys, honest lead times, and a drawing produced from the worn part when none exists.
Typical workShafts, bushes, manifolds, valve bodies, replacement gears
Instrument components, device housings and test fixtures in stainless, titanium and PEEK, machined to the surface finish and cleanliness a device maker specifies, with each batch documented.
Typical workInstrument bodies, fixtures, prototype and small-batch device parts
Structural fittings, brackets and ground-support tooling in aluminium and titanium, cut in one setup on five-axis machines and inspected against the model before they leave the room.
Typical workFittings, brackets, tooling, test-rig components
04 — Quality
Quality here is a set of habits, not a plaque. These are the practices every job goes through.
Critical dimensions are checked at the machine while the part is still fixtured, and every finished part passes the inspection room before it is packed. The report travels with the parts.
Each job carries a traveller from quote to dispatch: drawing revision, material heat number, tooling, machine, operator and inspection results. Ask for the history of a part and we can hand it to you.
For a new part, or a new revision, a first-article report maps each dimension on the drawing to a measured value before the batch runs. You see the numbers before you see the parts.
Gauges and the CMM are checked against reference standards on a schedule, and the inspection room is held at a stable temperature so a measurement in July matches one in January.
We describe our practices here rather than list certifications. If your programme requires a particular standard, ask, and we will tell you plainly what we can support.
05 — Request a quote
A good quote starts with a complete drawing. Send these four things and we reply with a price, a lead time and any questions the drawing raises.
A 3D model (STEP or Parasolid) and a 2D drawing (PDF) with the revision level. The drawing carries tolerances, threads, surface finish and datums; the model carries the geometry.
The quantity now, and what you expect later. One prototype is fixtured differently from a repeat batch, and the quote reflects that.
Grade, condition, and any certification the material must carry. Free-issue material is welcome; tell us what is coming and when.
Anodising, passivation, plating, painting and heat treatment are arranged with local finishers. Give us the specification and the areas to mask.
06 — The workshop
A machine floor, a tool crib and an inspection room, laid out so a part goes in one door and comes out the other with its paperwork.
Five-axis machining centres, turning centres with live tooling, wire and sink EDM and grinders on a slab poured for the purpose, with chip and coolant handling kept off the operator's hands.
Every holder is assembled, balanced and measured off the machine, so a tool change on the floor takes the time it takes to swap a holder, not to set one.
Separate from the floor, held at a steady temperature, with the CMM, a granite plate and the hand instruments that every part passes before it is packed.
Soft jaws, modular fixtures and programs are kept with the job number, so a repeat batch goes back on the machine the same way it came off.
07 — Contact
Aldric Precision works from a workshop in Adelaide's north, South Australia, among the fabricators, finishers and heat-treaters the work depends on. Deliveries across metropolitan Adelaide, freight interstate.