Just out of interest Mike, what machinery do you have in house?
Trev

The list is longer than I can remember but basically everything except a metal injection machine (for die cast parts) and we don't (currently) do any metal stamping in-house but will work towards this in about a year.

I didn't intend to do plastic moulding either but the sheer number of small plastic parts meant the cost of dies and making these bits in small numbers (the Chinese treat any production run under 10K pcs as not worth bothering with) got out of hand cost wise.

Also the big advantage of doing it ourselves is that we can quickly make another small batch of a part should we need to or we can make minor changes to a part within a day or so. We certainly couldn't rely on doing this if we were having the work done outside.