Inter-Lakes Applications
Made in the USA
A precision base matters once a machine carries a linear axis, a gantry, a vision system, an indexer or a multi-station process. At that point the base is no longer furniture. It's a datum. Everything mounted to it inherits its flatness, squareness and stiffness, and errors in the base can't be tuned out downstream.
Where builders use Inter-Lakes
Indexing dial machines
Bases and stress-relieved dial plates for Camco and other rotary indexers.
Large custom machines
Heavy welded structures machined to hold tolerance across a large footprint.
Tooling plates & T-slot tables
Machined plates that locate fixtures and stations precisely.
Assembly & test stations
Repeatable bases for machines built again and again.
This is not aluminum extrusion
Extruded aluminum framing
Modular, light, adjustable and inexpensive. Excellent for guarding, workstations and anything you expect to reconfigure.
A precision machine base
Welded and machined: heavier, stiffer, held to a specified tolerance and not meant to be adjusted after the fact. The right choice when the machine's accuracy depends on it.
Build it yourself, or buy it?
Tolerance
A general shop can weld a frame. Holding flatness and squareness across a large welded structure, through weld distortion, stress relief and final machining, is a different discipline.
Capacity
Inter-Lakes can deliver three, five or ten frames in the time a local shop turns out one, and in-house welding uses floor space and skilled labor that could be building machines.