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Elevator Motor Machine Shop & Custom Fabrication

The machine shop inside the motor shop. Welding, machining, and custom fabrication that keeps obsolete elevator equipment running and modernization projects on schedule.

Every serious motor rebuild eventually hits the same wall: a part that no longer exists. The bearing housing worn beyond tolerance, the shaft journal scored past reuse, the mounting bed that a modern replacement machine will not fit. Most repair vendors stop at that wall and start quoting replacements. EMR built a machine shop so we could go through it.

Our machine shop operates inside our Trenton, New Jersey facility, alongside the winding room and the test floor, and that proximity is the whole point. The machinist restoring a bearing fit and the technician who measured the wear work in the same building, on the same job, to the same specification. Nothing is subcontracted, nothing is shipped out, and nothing gets lost in translation between vendors.

Fabrication and Machining Capabilities

  • Plasma cutting
  • Spray welding, building worn surfaces back up for remachining to original dimensions
  • MIG and stick welding
  • Bearing housings resleeved, restoring worn housings to correct fit instead of scrapping the casting
  • Bronze and poured babbitt bearings fabricated, the bearing technology that vintage elevator machines were designed around and that few shops still pour
  • Impeller repairs on pumps
  • Custom motor mounts and beds, fabricated for modernization projects that install new equipment on or alongside existing elevator machines

Why Babbitt and Bronze Still Matter

Here is a piece of institutional knowledge that is disappearing from the trade: a large share of the gearless machines and MG sets still running in American buildings ride on poured babbitt bearings, a technology most modern machine shops have never handled. The aging of this equipment, and of the workforce that knows how to service it, is a theme industry publications such as Elevator World return to year after year. When a babbitt bearing wears out, the machine does not need a replacement part that does not exist. It needs a shop that can melt, pour, and machine a new bearing to the original fit. We do this work routinely, because keeping vintage machines alive is the core of our repair and rewinding business, and the machine shop is what makes those saves possible

Built for Modernization Work

Modernization contractors use our fabrication capability differently: custom motor mounts and beds that marry new equipment to existing machine rooms. Every older building is its own puzzle of bolt patterns, bed heights, and clearances, and a fabricated mount designed from actual field measurements beats improvisation on installation day. Pair this with our base and coupler surveys and the MOD flexible coupler, and EMR covers the full mechanical interface between a new motor and an existing machine.

The machine shop also backs every other EMR service. Field crews call on it when an onsite job needs a fabricated component, and shop rebuilds flow through it whenever a shaft, housing, or fit needs restoration. It is the difference between a shop that repairs motors and a shop that can genuinely say yes to whatever condition the machine arrives in.

Have a worn housing, an obsolete bearing, or a modernization mount to spec out? Call (609) 392 6149 or request a fabrication quote.

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Frequently Asked Questions

The shop performs plasma cutting, spray welding, and MIG and stick welding, resleeves bearing housings, fabricates bronze and poured babbitt bearings, repairs pump impellers, and builds custom motor mounts and beds for elevator modernization projects. If a component for an elevator machine or industrial motor no longer exists, we can usually make it.

Babbitt is a soft metal alloy that vintage elevator machines and MG sets were designed to ride on. When a babbitt bearing wears out, the correct repair is to melt, pour, and machine a new bearing to the original fit. Few machine shops still perform this work, and it is essential to keeping older gearless machines in service.

Yes. Worn housings are resleeved or built back up with spray welding and then machined to the correct fit. Restoring the original casting is usually faster and far less expensive than sourcing a replacement, which for obsolete machines often does not exist.

Yes. We fabricate custom motor mounts and beds that adapt new equipment to existing elevator machines and machine rooms, built from actual field measurements. Combined with our base and coupler surveys and the MOD flexible coupler, this covers the complete mechanical interface for a modernization installation.

Everything is performed in our own Trenton, New Jersey facility, in the same building as our winding room and test floor. The machinists and the motor technicians work on the same jobs to the same specifications, with no outside vendors in the chain.

Yes. Because the shop operates inside our repair facility with 24 hour emergency service, fabrication and machining can be brought into an emergency rebuild the moment testing reveals the need. Call (609) 392 6149 with the situation and we will scope the fastest path.