Manufacturing / Production Run
67 stainless burners, from prototype to palletized delivery
Shop · Manufacturing
- 01The challenge
Heat Wagon needed a stainless steel burner built to a spec no shop they called would take on. The geometry was unforgiving: precision-rolled stainless, perforated bands, threaded ports, and tight tolerances that had to hold across not one part but dozens. They needed someone who could prove the process and then actually produce.
- 02Our approach
We started at the prototype and refused to scale until it was right. We dialed in the rolling, perforating, and TIG-welding process until every dimension landed inside spec, then locked it down for production. From there we batched the work: rolled the stainless strip, cut and perforated the bands, prepped the threaded NPT nipples, and welded up repeatable burner cans, every unit matching the last.
- 03The result
Sixty-seven finished burners plus additional parts, every one repeatable and within spec and tolerance. We didn't stop at the weld table: we shrink-wrapped them, palletized them, loaded the box truck, and delivered. The customer who couldn't find anybody to make this part now has a shop that can make it again.
“They couldn't find anybody to make this burner. We prototyped it, proved the process, and built 67 of them, then loaded the truck and delivered.”
— Sons of Thunder Welding
From the job
The work, up close