Dip Braze & Machining Services
Rantec has designed and manufactured microwave antennas, waveguides and precision hardware components for over 50 years. Our complete in-house manufacturing facility includes precision machining, punching, dip brazing, chem film, and assembly. Our ability to control the manufacturing processes assures consistent and predictable final product performance.
Utilizing the experience and skills we have developed from the many years of manufacturing complex microwave antennas and components, Rantec provides contract aluminum dip brazing and machining.
Our operations team is adept at performing build-to-print projects for customers requiring our specialized abilities and high quality workmanship. Our in-house machine shop is also able to produce high quality, precision aluminum parts.
Rantec is pleased to provide this expertise to new customers looking for experts in machining and dip braze in RF/Microwave parts. Your business is our business and we treat your work with the same attention to detail as our own antennas saving you time and money in the process. Contact us today to see how we can be of service.
Our Expertise
- Dip Brazing
- Mechanical Assembly
- Heat Treating
- Deburring
- Chem Film
- Machining
About Dip Brazing
The dip brazing process allows simultaneous joining of aluminum components with varying material thickness. Dip brazed joints are very strong, leak-tight and electrically conductive.
Advantages
- Excellent alternative to expensive hog-outs or castings
- Wide range of design options and superior results at low cost
- Thin gauge aluminum to complex assemblies can be brazed
Rantec is exceptionally adept and proficient with the salt bath dip brazing method for the process of joining precise aluminum alloy components. We take pride in maintaining the tight process controls necessary to ensure that intricate and delicate microwave antenna assemblies requiring dip brazing are manufactured to specification. The requirements of AWS C3.7, Grade C (previously MILB-7883, Type V, Grade B) are met at Rantec and quality programs are maintained to ensure consistent and reliable service performance.
Rantec's brazing facilities include a 48 x 48 x 40 in. braze tank, dual preheat ovens, aging ovens and a humidity chamber. A wet lab area contains all chemical process activities, which include anti-corrosion chem. film applications appropriate to aluminum dip brazed assemblies.
Contact Jim Soper for more information and quotations at 818-223-5033 or at jsoper@rantecantennas.com
Machining
Rantec maintains a state-of-the-art machine shop with 10 high-speed CNC machine centers capable of holding a tolerance of .0005 on complex parts up to 40 x 64 inches. In addition to the CNC centers, an Amada CNC turret punch, a compliment of manual milling machines, lathes, and other equipment complete the metal fabrication shops. We have all the tools necessary to perform jobs from the smallest prototype to large-scale production.
Capabilities Recap
- Manufacturing and assembly from prototypes to large-scale production
- 85,000 sq. ft. total
- 10 high-speed CNC machine centers capable of holding a tolerance of .0005 on complex parts up to 40 x 64 inches
- Latest CAD/CAM programming software with import-export capabilities
- 33-ton CNC precision punch
- DXF and IGES files
- Dip Braze AWS C3.7, Grade C (previously MILB-7883, Type V, Grade B)