Strippit Machine & CNC-Control
U.S. & International
Repair-Service Listings
The Strippit Company has Some Excellent Servicemen,
and Some that are Not so Excellent, Just like Most Other Companies.
But, I Keep getting Phone Calls from Strippit's Customers looking for Alternatives to using The Strippit Service Department. They Like Their Strippit Machines!
But are Frustrated with Service & Tech-Support & Parts Availability from the Strippit Co.
One Customer called Strippit wanting Manuals for his Strippit Helios Laser Machine, and was told "We'll call Belgium, and Try to get a Set for You". This Strippit
"Tech Support" Person did Not even know this Machine Did Not Come From Belgium,
but was Designed & Build & Supported from Akron NY, Right where He Was Sitting!
Another Customer needed a Hydraulic Pump, and was told it would take a
"Couple of Months" to get 1 from Belgium. Strippit could Not even Say When!
Another just called me, and said it would take Strippit 3 Months to get a New Ballscrew
for his Machine. Months! What the Hell are these Shop Owners suppose to do in the meantime with their Production? They Depend on Decent Support!
Another Customer called that has 4 Strippit Punch Machines. They have been
Calling And Faxing And Emailing The Strippit "Service" Dept for 2-Weeks trying to
get Price and Availability on Repair Parts! 2-Weeks, and they still No Response!!!Obviously, They are Rethinking The Machine Brand they want to be Partnered With!
Many Calls from California that Local Strippit-Factory Servicemen Can't Handle their Machine Problems, and they End-Up having to Fly a Strippit Servicemen
All-The-Way from Strippit Factory in Akron, New York!
Guess who Pays for ALL Airfare & Car Rental & Hotels & Travel Hours?
A Maryland Customer called for the Same Reason, "The Local Strippit Servicemen
Tries Real-Hard, but Repeatedly, Can't Fix Our Machine, and we have to Fly-In a
Serviceman from Strippit Factory at Our Cost!".
And Above is from Here in the U.S., where Strippit's Service is at it's "Best".
You should hear Sad Stories People Email me from Around The Rest of The World.
To be Fair, I Also Know Plenty of Service & Part Horror-Stories about
Amada, Finn-Power, Trumpf, Muratec, and Nisshinbo Companies.
They are All Far From Perfect!
Strippit Can Fix These Problems,
It Just Takes a Long-Term Commitment to Quality Customer Support;
1 --- Hire a Few More People for Engineering, Field-Service, and Tech-Support, as They are Spread Way Too-Thin. Be Better Than The Competition, It's Not Very Hard!
Value your Employees, and make them less Fearful of Losing Their Jobs.
All Incoming Service Phone Calls to Strippit ( That's You, Customer!!! )
are Now Recorded & Computerized to the Second, with
Strippit Management Getting a Printout of Your Phone Call Activity to Strippit, and how Long their "Tech-Support" People Talked to You! Wouldn't Want them Taking Too Much with You. Is this a LVD Belgium Thing? Welcome to George Orwell's 1984!
They Laid-Off People like Wittmeyer, their Last HECC80 Control Guy.
There is Now NO "Tech Support" for Any HECC80 Control Machine at Strippit.
Good Thing For You, That's My Speciality Here At Machine Technologies!
Strippit has Also Stopped Phone Support for the Hundreds of "R-Machine" made in 1990's, but will send a Serviceman for a Few Thousand Dollars to "Take a Look At It".
They bring Good Ol' Pete out of Retirement "To Straighten Things Out".
Surely you can Engineer Better Service than this, Tony.
Maybe you should bring Dahlin back Too.
If this All Seems a Little Pointed, you can Thank Chris Szmania, from
Many Customer Reports, He seems to be Making Strippit Company Policy these days.
2 --- Train these Service People Better,
and Equip them with All the Tools & Documentation They Need.
3 --- Pay & Take-Care of these Service People,
so you Retain Their Valuable Knowledge & Experience. They make you Money.
As Strippit Charges $130.00 a Hour for Service, $195.00 a Hour for Overtime Service,
and $260.00 a Hour for Super-Duper Special Weekend Double-Time Service,
Plus Add-In All-The-Expences & Travel Costs on Top, and you would Think Strippit Could Afford to Provide Very Good Service, and Would Be Very Happy To Do So!
4 --- Maintain Adequate Repair Parts Inventory for All Your Machine Product Lines.
Strippit Charges Plenty for their Parts, they could at least Keep Parts In-Stock!
As The-Above Seems Un-Likely to Happen, Here, In No Particular Order,
are Some Independent Alternatives to "Official Strippit Service".
I have Also Included some Servicemen on Other Brands of Machine Tools;
Note #1
Many of these Servicemen will Travel Outside of their Listed Area,
and most have More Expertise than I can List Here.
So, Call & Ask Them Specifically What they Can, and Can Not Do for You!
Note #2
If you Know of Good Competent Servicemen that can Service
Strippit Punch & Laser Machines, as well as Other Fab Machinery,
Anywhere in the U.S. & The World,
Have them Contact Me with Their Qualifications,
I will Add them to this Service List Page.
Note #3
Some in Akron Think I Hate Strippit, which is Ridiculous.
I Want Strippit to Prosper!
Not for Strippit's Current-Owners Du-Jour,
But for Strippit's American Workers,
and for American Manufacturing.
Strippit Makes Good Machinery,
But they have Built a Deserved Reputation for Poor "After The Sale" Support.
The First Rule of Business, is When You are in a "Deep Hole" Stop Digging!
Good Grief, For Strippit's (Certainly Not Mine) Own Good,
I am Trying to Cajole Strippit into Stop Digging This Bad Reputation Hole!
They will Not Prosper Again until they do so.
Note #4
This Web-Page is a Work In Progress.
I will Update it Frequently, and will Add New Servicemen & Web-Links,
so Please Check-Back Again!
U.S. East Coast
The New England States;
AfterMarket Service Co. --- Karl Van Auken, Oneco, CT Phone 860-564-8198
Expertise; All 1980's to 2000's Strippit's with Laser & Plasma Experience.
Also 1970's to 1990's Trumpf Machines and their Bosch & Siemens Controls.
New England to Ohio States;
CNC Machinery Service --- Keith Coffee, Albion, NY Cell Phone 716-830-4630
Expertise; Very Good on All Strippit Machines. Expert on Apple-MAC & P.C. Controls!
Keith is also The Expert on FC1500/45 Plasma Punch Machines.
Also does Custom PLC Control Retrofitting on Various Machines.
New England to Mid-West;
HughesTech --- Don Hughes, Buffalo, NY Phone 716-684-5222
Expertise; Service on Niagara Brakes & Shears, and small Stamping Presses,
with 23 Years Experience. Also Service's Cincinnati and Pacific Press Brakes, Control & Back-Gage Retrofits, Installation of Safety Light-Curtains & Safety-Guards.
Don is also Strippit Alumni.
New York City Area;
Optimum Service --- Mike Smith, Long Island, NY Phone 631-421-6912
Expertise; Various Strippit, Amada, Nisshinbo Machines, and some Brakes & Shears.
The Carolinas;
The Machine Technologies Co. --- Bruce Warner, Charlotte, NC. Phone 704-233-5229
Expertise; Strippit Houdaille HECC80 CNC Control Repair-Parts & Machine Repair-Parts,
Strippit Houdaille HECC80 Control & G.E Hi-Ack Model 2 & 3 Servo Circuit Board Repairs. Factory Trained Field-Service on All Strippit HECC80 Control Turret-Punch Machines.
The Carolinas;
Contemporary Technologies Inc. --- Warren Blower, Lexington, NC
Expertise; Factory Trained on Wiedemann & Nisshinbo CNC Machines.
Phone 336-956-6500 or 336-250-9727 Cell Phone.
Florida;
MetalSoft Engineering --- John Scrog, Plantation, Florida. Phone 954-587-6717
Expertise; Laser Installations & Service, as well as Strippit & Amada & DiAcro CNC Punch Machines. Also CNC Programming Software & DNC-Downloading Systems.
Web-Site www.mse84.com
Florida;
Martin CNC Inc. --- Shane Martin, Fruitland Park, Florida. Phone 352-326-0047
Expertise; Parts & Service on Hurco Autobend Press-Brake Backgages and
Hurco Milling Machine Systems & Controls. Web-Site www.martincnc.com
U.S. Mid-West & Central States
Chicago-Land, Michigan, & Mid-West;
A & R Machine Tool Repair --- Alan Suda, Chicago, IL New Cell Phone 708-826-9845
Expertise; Good on 1970's, 1980's, & 1990's Strippit Turret-Punch Machines, as well as Single-Station Machines. Also works on other Fab. Machines. Ex-Strippit Serviceman.
Chicago-Land Area;
RK Machine Tool --- Robert Kelley, Chicago, IL Phone 815-355-0531
Expertise; Good on the Late-Model Fanuc / General Numeric CNC Control Strippit Machines. Also works on Single-Station Strippit Machines.
Michigan;
Nims Precision Machining Inc. --- Myron Nims, Lyon, MI Phone 248-437-1002
Expertise; Laser Service & Laser Parts, and Machine Service.
Upper Mid-West & Canada;
Trimec Machinery Sales --- A Merry-Band of Ex-Strippit Alumni in Minnesota Area.
Tom Wandmacher, Allen Anderson, John Ell & others. Phone 651-486-3859
Service on Strippit Punch & LaserTools, Sales & Service on Murata & other Machines.
Upper Mid-West;
Tom Theisen Machine Service --- Tom Theisen, Minneapolis / St. Paul Area.
Phone 320-761-1016 Expertise; Strippit CNC Machines with the Fanuc and the "P.C." Controls. Also Strippit Single-Station Punches, and some Non-Strippit Machine Tools.
Upper Mid-West;
Allen Anderson --- Clear Lake , WI Cell Phone 715-554-0437
Strippit's Laser Man for 25 Years. Does Travel outside of Mid-West Area.
If you have a Strippit Laser Made in the 1970's, 1980's, or 1990's, Al's your Guy.
Colorado;
Milt's Machine --- Dennis Johnson, Gilcrest . Office 970-737-1102 Cell 970-396-8165
Expertise; Early "A" Control, HECC80 Control, to Late-Model Fanuc Control Strippit Machines, as well as Single-Station Manual Strippit Punches, and DiAcro Press Brakes. Will Travel Long Distance in Country, and Out-Side of the U.S.
U.S. West-Coast States
California;
Consulting and Service --- Joe Normoyle, La Puenta, CA Phone 626-826-0007
Expertise; --- Specializing in Strippit Punch Press Machines.
Machine Automation Systems --- Denis Porter, Lockwood, CA
A Great Guy who will be Missed. R.I.P 7/9/10 See Tribute to Denis on Super 30/30 Page
Expertise; Best in the World on S.A.F. Single-Station Strippit Machines, also works on some CNC Strippit Turret Machines, as well as Brakes & Shears and Other Machinery.
Penrod Sheetmetal Machinery Repair --- Tom Penrod, Tracy, CA Phone 209-814-7626
Expertise; Service on Strippit and other Sheetmetal Fab Machinery.
Carl Wilson --- Los Angles, CA Phone 909-633-9050
Expertise; Service on Strippit and other Sheetmetal Fab Machinery,
Including Press-Brakes, Shears, and Laser Systems.
Erdmann Machine Tool Service --- Milo Erdmann, San Pedro. Phone 310-251-6661
Expertise: Service on Strippit & Factory-Trained on DiAcro Punch Press Machines and other Sheetmetal Fab Machines. Also, Service & Parts on General Electric 550 CNC Controls, and Service & Parts on Dyna-Bend Press Brake Backgage Controls.
International
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Australia;
Associated Machine Tool Pty. --- Rod Jarvis, Picton, N.S.W. 2571 Australia
Phone 612- 4677- 0844 or 0411- 405-719 Mobil-Phone
Expertise; 30 Years Experience on Strippit & other Fabrication Machinery.
CNC Man Pty. --- Wayne Hoppe, Capalaba, Queensland, 4157 Australia
Phone 61-7-3206-4409 or 0438-22-99-36 Mobil Phone, Website www.cncman.com.au
Expertise; Fanuc Control Service, and Laser, Milling & Turning Machine Experience. Also Services some LVD-Strippit Machines for GWB Machine Tools.
BCH Machine Tool Services Pty. --- Bruce Heal, Bulleen, Victoria, 3105 Australia
Phone 03-9850-2095 or Mobil-Phone 04-1831-1195
Expertise; 32 Years Servicing Strippit Machines, Specializing in HECC80 Controls.
Bright Spark Industrial Services --- John Waters, Horsley Park, N.S.W. 2100 Australia Phone 02-9620-2860, Fax 02-9620-2870
Expertise; Strippit Repairs, and other Machine Tool Services
GWB Machine Tools Pty. --- Coopers Plains, Queensland, 4108 Australia
Phone 61-7-3274-1762 Website www.gwbtools.com.au
Expertise; The Official LVD Strippit Distributor providing Sales & Service for Australia.
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Canada;
Mecanicomp Inc. --- Jean Charette, Laval, Quebec, Canada
Phone 514-242-1102 Website www.mecanicomp.com
Expertise; Primarily Amada Punch-Press & Press-Brake Service in Eastern Canada, But also Services Strippit, Wiedemann, and Other Sheetmetal Machine Tools.
Servo Plus Company --- Jim Mark, Peterborough, Canada.
Phone 416-200-3773 Website www.servoplus.com
Expertise; Strippit and Nisshinbo Machine Service, primarily in the Toronto Area.
High-Tech Services --- Brent Highfield, Calgary, Canada. Cell Phone 403-999-2355
Expertise; Primarily a Amada Equipment & Fanuc Control Specialist with 8 Years as a Amada Factory Serviceman. Starting to Service Newer Strippit Turret Machines, which also use Fanuc CNC Controls. Also provides Tool Sharpening Services.
Hove Machine Services --- David Strudwick, Wasaga Beach, Canada.
Expertise; Not a Strippit Specialist, but provides Parts & Service on Many Machines such as Mills, Lathes, Grinders, Ironworkers, and Pearson Press Brakes.
Phone 705-429-5910, Fax 705-429-1557
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Mexico;
CNC Service Co. --- Jerry Fletcher, San Juan Del Rio, Queretaro, C.R., Mexico
Expertise; Strippit CNC Turret Machines with Fanuc Controls, FMS Systems,
some Older Strippit Turret Machines, and LVD Brakes & Shears.
Also has Experience with Amada, Finn-Power, Murata-Weideman, and Haas Machines.
Nextel Phone ID 92*1015722*1 427 133 5305 Office
Nextel Phone ID 92*1015722*2 427 133 5306 Technician
Strippit/LVD --- Pedro Morlet, Queretaro City, Mexico
In 2002 Strippit/LVD Announced, with Much-Fanfare, this Sales & Service Subsidiary.
It Now Appears that Strippit/LVD has Abandoned, in that Special Strippit-Way with Much Less-Fanfare, this Official Subsidiary. So Much for Strippit/LVD Factory Support.
Apparently Strippit/LVD has Sluffled-Off Their Service Responsibilities to HEMSA.
Herramientas Exclusivas y Maquinaria (HEMSA) --- Mexico City, Mexico
A General Machinery Distributor that also Represents some Strippit/LVD Machine Lines.
Provides some Strippit/LVD Machine Repair Service, But Service Expertise is Very Poor.
Phone 52-55-5547-0448, Fax 52-55-5541-6431, Website http://3201.mx.all-biz.info/en/
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United Kingdom;
Hartley Engineering / Andover Punch Press LTD. --- Ralph Williams, Andover, UK. Phone 01264 362193 Expertise; All Strippit Punch Machine Models.
Kennett Machine Tool Services --- Operated for many years, providing Strippit Machine Service, by the Father, Michael Kennett, who has retired.
Now operated by the Son, with the same name Michael Kennett, Andover, Hants, UK.
Phone 1264358063, Mobil 7866699650
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Does Anyone Know of Any More Good Strippit Servicemen in
---- Africa?
---- Asia?
---- Canada?
---- Europe?
---- Mexico?
---- South America?
I will Add all Good Service Referrals.
This page was last updated: January 12, 2012
Shear, Press-Brake, Stamping-Press, Amada Repairs
HughesTech --- Don Hughes, Buffalo, NY Phone 716-684-5222
Expertise; Service on Niagara Brakes & Shears, and small Stamping-Presses,
with 23 Years Experience. Also Service's Cincinnati and Pacific Press Brakes, Control & Back-Gage Retrofits, Installation of Safety Light-Curtains & Safety-Guards.
Don is also Strippit Alumni.
Wysong Co. --- Repair Parts, Repair Service, and Factory-Rebuilding of Wysong Shears and Press-Brake Machines. Wysong also does Contract and Production Machining Services. Give Susanna Hall or Russell Hall a Call at 336-621-3960
or see Website www.wysongpartsandservice.com
Southern Machinery Repair Inc. --- Specializes in Rebuilding and Repair of
Stamping Presses, Press-Brakes, Shears, and Forging Equipment.
Call Don Cooper at 731-885-8052 or Website www.southernmachinery.com
Automec Inc. --- Retrofits New CNC Backgage Systems on Old Press-Brakes.
Replace Old Hurco, Dynabend, Etc. Backgages on Old Promecan, Pacific, DiAcro, Amada, Wysong, Etc. Press Brakes. Call 781-893-3403 Website www.automec.com
Alternative Parts Inc. --- Replacement Repair Parts for Amada Machines.
Call 888-882-6001 or 631-345-9500. Website www.altparts.com
Does Your Serviceman Show-Up
with a Ton & a Half of
Repair-Parts, Test-Equipment, Manuals, and Tools, Like Me?
