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CAPABILITY 03 / 04 · PRECISION METAL STAMPINGS
Brackets are what we're known for. Not what we're limited to.
Precision stampings for electronics and industrial hardware. Blanked, pierced, formed, and finished to your print, then inspected in Mesa before they reach your dock. The parts below were photographed on our floor, not pulled from a catalog. If yours starts as flat metal, send the drawing.
DESIGNS ON FILE
15,000+
PARTS SHIPPED
100 pcs
STAMPINGS SINCE 1994
1994
MINIMUM ORDER
100 pcs
Proto to production
LEAD TIME
5–6 weeks
From approved PO
FIRST ARTICLE
Always
You approve it
TOOLING
One-time
Kept on file
INSPECTION
In Mesa
Before it ships
VOLUME
To 100K+
Same tooling
/ / Metal Stampings
What actually comes off the press.
Most people find us through PCI brackets and assume that's the whole shop. It isn't. These are real parts, photographed in our Mesa facility: washers, clips, terminals, channels, panels. Different geometry, different sizes, the same process discipline behind all of it.
Contoured Panels
Large formed panels with a bored center opening, a drilled hole pattern, a formed mounting flange down one edge, and a painted finish.
Deep-Drawn Cylinders
Seamless cups and cans drawn from flat stock, open or closed end. Protective micro enclosures and electromagnetic interference (EMI/RFI) shields.
Formed Plates & Panels
Circular plates with an irregular cutout, a coined channel, and a full hole pattern, struck in sequence from one strip. The tool locates every feature to every other, so the geometry holds piece after piece.
Plates with Formed Arms
Precision plates with a bored hub, a row of small formed tabs around the arc, and a long extended arm. Bright finish, tight repeatability.
Formed Brackets
Formed brackets in a black finish, with slotted holes and a clean bend line. The slots leave room to adjust in the field; the finish matches your drawing.
Rings & Washers
Large-diameter rings and washers, blanked flat with a clean edge and a controlled burr. Distributes fastener loads, prevents electrical shorts, and absorbs vibrations in computer chassis
Channels & Box Sections
Open U-channels and box sections, several bends off one blank, with mounting tabs and located notches. Every bend lands in the same spot, so the part drops into your assembly.
Links & Plates
Flat links and plates with bored and countersunk holes and offset shapes. The whole value is the hole-to-edge relationship holding run after run.
Clips, Contacts & Terminals
Small formed clips, spring contacts, and copper terminals, run and bagged by the lot. Steel, stainless, and copper alloy all run here.
Your part probably isn't on this page. There are probably tens if not hundreds of thousands different metal stampings across the computer hardware industry. We don’t make one part that fits all we make unique parts that fit each specific drawing and chassis. We’ve manufactured over 1,000 different types of metal stampings at all different shapes, sizes and forms. If you are looking to source a stamping we got you covered.
/ / WHAT WE DO TO FLAT METAL
Six things happen between coil and carton.
A stamping is just a sequence of operations applied to flat stock. Here's the sequence, and where each one can make or break your part.
Blanking
Cutting your outline out of flat stock. The blank sets everything downstream. If the profile is off, nothing after it recovers.
Progressive or Single-Stage
High-count parts run progressive, several operations in one die, one hit per part. Lower volumes or bigger parts run single-stage. Volume decides.
Piercing
Holes, slots, and hole patterns. Position matters more than size. A hole that's the right diameter in the wrong place is still scrap.
Plating & Finishing
Nickel, zinc, paint, and other finishes to your spec. Tell us the environment the part lives in and we'll flag a finish that won't survive it.
Don't see the operation your part needs? Ask. We'd rather tell you honestly that something is outside what we run than take the order and find out at the first article. Send the print with your material, thickness, and tolerances called out, and you'll get a straight answer on whether it's a fit, within 48 hours.
Forming & Bending
Tabs, flanges, channels, offsets. Every bend is an operation and a chance for springback, which is exactly why the first article exists.
Inbound Inspection
Every lot is measured against your print at our Mesa facility before it's released to you. Problems get caught on our side of the transaction.
/ / HOW A STAMPING HAPPENS
Print in. Finished parts out.
We follow the same process for metal stampings that we do for our brackets. The first article is the one that matters. Nothing runs in production until you've held a real part and signed off.
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Send the print
CAD, PDF, a dimensioned sketch, or the part itself. Material, thickness, and tolerances if you have them.
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Quote & review
A written quote within 48 hours, plus a manufacturability read on anything driving cost or risk.
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See the full workflow, start to finish, on the Process page →
Tooling
A written quote within 48 hours, plus a manufacturability read on anything driving cost or risk.
4
First article
A real part, measured against your print, in your hands. Production waits for your approval.
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Run & inspect
Your lot is produced, inspected against your spec in Mesa, packed, and shipped.
/ / GETTING STARTED
What to send us. Anything is a start.
You don't need a finished engineering drawing to get a real answer. Here's what helps most, in order, though the bottom tier is enough to open the conversation.
BEST
GREAT
GOOD
A CAD file
STEP, DWG, or DXF with material, thickness, and tolerances called out. We can quote from it directly and go to tooling with no interpretation.
A PDF print or dimensioned sketch
A drawing, a marked-up screenshot, or a hand sketch with real numbers. We'll rebuild the geometry and confirm every dimension before anything is cut.
The part itself
Mail us a sample, or photograph it next to a ruler with your key dimensions noted. Reverse-engineering parts from samples is a capability of ours, not a favor.
Then tell us five things
These turn a drawing into a real quote.
QTY
MATERIAL
THICKNESS
FINISH
TIMING
How many now, and roughly how many per year
What it's made of, or what it needs to survive
Stock gauge, if your design calls one out
Plating, paint, or bare
When you need parts on your dock
/ / WHAT IT COSTS
Stampings are quoted to your part.
We publish real pricing for our standard brackets because they're a standard product. A stamping isn't. The price depends on your geometry, material, thickness, finish, and volume, so a published ladder would be a fiction. What we won't do is make you chase the number. Send the print and you'll have a written quote, itemized, within 48 hours.
Want to see how we price the things we can publish? The bracket pricing ladders are public, tooling costs and all.
MINIMUM ORDER
100 pieces
TOOLING
One-time
quoted with the part
STANDARD LEAD TIME
5-6 Weeks
firm date
QUOTE TURNAROUND
48 Hours
written, itemized
Where your stampings are made
Metal stampings are produced by our manufacturing partner in Taiwan, a relationship that goes back to the early years of the company. (Our brackets come from a separate long-standing partner in China.) Quoting, inbound inspection, finishing, packaging, and fulfillment run through our Mesa, Arizona facility, and you buy from a US company on a USD invoice with Net 30 terms. Because the parts are of non-US origin, they don't meet Made-in-USA, Buy American, TAA, or ITAR requirements. If your program carries one of those, we're not your supplier and we'll say so directly. Full country-of-origin detail →
Keystone Electronics
COMPANIES THAT BUILD ON HAPCO PARTS
Cut-Mark
Matrox
Flextronics
Sealevel Systems
Phillips Components
/ / STRAIGHT TALK
When we're the right shop and when we're not.
Stamping work goes badly when the fit was wrong from the start. Here's the honest read before you invest time in a print.
Send us the print if…
Your part starts as flat metal and gets blanked, pierced, and formed
You need 100+ pieces with intent to reorder
It's commercial or industrial electronics or hardware
You want offshore pricing with US-based inspection and one US vendor of record
You need the part to repeat identically for years off tooling kept on file
Look elsewhere if…
Your program requires Made in USA, Buy American, TAA, or domestic content
The part is ITAR-controlled or defense with origin restrictions
It isn't sheet metal, machined billet, castings, or molded plastic aren't what we do
You need a handful of pieces, one time tooling won't pencil for you
You need parts next week a first article plus production is a 5–6 week reality
X
X
X
X
X
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// STAMPING QUESTIONS
Stamping questions.
What engineers and buyers ask us before sending a print. If yours isn't here, call you'll get a straight answer, not a sales pitch.
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Brackets are our best-known product, but they're one product line with standard configurations and published pricing. Stampings are everything else: any part that starts as flat metal and gets blanked, pierced, and formed to your print. Different geometry, different pricing model (quoted per part), and a different manufacturing partner. Stampings come from our partner in Taiwan, brackets from China.
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Send us the print with your material and thickness called out and we'll confirm it against what our partner runs. We'd rather verify your specific spec than publish a blanket range that doesn't hold true for every geometry. A thickness that's routine on a flat washer isn't necessarily routine on a deep-formed panel. Tell us what your design needs and you'll get a straight answer within 48 hours.
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100 pieces. Because tooling is a one-time cost spread across your run, the economics improve steeply with volume. If you only need a handful of parts one time, we're honestly not the right fit. A machine shop or a laser cutter will serve you better than a stamping die will.
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It's a one-time charge quoted with the part. The cost depends on your geometry and how many operations the die has to perform, which is why we quote it rather than publish a flat number. It isn't recurring. Once built, your tooling is kept on file and used only for your orders, so every reorder skips tooling and setup entirely.
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Always. You approve a real part, measured against your print, before the production run proceeds. On a formed part this matters even more than on a flat one. Springback is real, and the first article is where you find out whether the bend landed where the drawing says it should. If it isn't right, it doesn't go to production.
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Yes, and it's one of the things we're best at. Send a sample or a photo with measurements and we'll reverse-engineer the part, no original drawings needed. After 30 years and 15,000+ designs there's a reasonable chance we've made something like it before. See our Legacy & Hard-to-Find Parts page for the full process.
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By our manufacturing partner in Taiwan, a relationship going back to the early years of the company. (Brackets come from a separate long-standing partner in China.) Quoting, inbound quality inspection, finishing, packaging, and fulfillment all happen at our Mesa, Arizona facility. You order from a US company, pay a USD invoice on Net 30, and every lot is inspected on our side before it reaches you. The Process and For Procurement pages cover the full flow.
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No, and we won't claim otherwise. Our parts are manufactured overseas and finished in the US, which does not qualify them as US-origin under Made-in-USA, Buy American, TAA, or ITAR rules. If your stamping is going into a program with a domestic-content or origin restriction, a domestic stamper is the right call and we'll tell you that directly rather than let you find out in an audit.
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Yes. We have a standard mutual NDA we can send for your review before you share anything sensitive. Your prints and your tooling stay tied to your account and are used only for your orders.
Send the print. We'll tell you straight.
CAD file, PDF, sketch, or the part itself. You'll have a written quote, a tooling number, and an honest answer on whether it's in our wheelhouse, all within 48 hours.
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