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I was contacted by Raul; he is from a company that supplies stamped dies for Volkswagen in southern Texas. He badly needed an Allen Bradley 1391B-ESAA 45-AQB AC Controller. We had 1 in stock. He arranged payment and told us it was “my head if I can’t get this machine making parts by Thursday.” It was Tuesday morning, coming up on noon.



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A couple of years ago, it became clear that we needed a separate, larger space, for our servo repair technicians to operate and to continue to successfully repair servo motors. When one of our awaited storage programs ended, we knew it was time to act.

The new servo motor lab was completed in less than 6 weeks....

The Allen Bradley 1391 series was first introduced in 1992 and is still widely used today.  Noted for its stout build and workhorse mentality, the 1391 series has machine owners holding on to them much longer than most legacy servo...

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The Allen Bradley 1336 Plus was the jumping off point for the later 1336 VFDs; the 1336 Plus drive line was introduced in 1994, and the drive line became the most installed base in North America. The entire 1336 Plus line went obsolete on December 31, 2010.The 1336 Plus II was an upgrade from the 1336 Plus, which the 1336 Plus can be converted to the Plus II.


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Read about Mary Ann's Specialty Meats and how we got them running, QUICKLY!


On October 27th, we received a call from Bill Korleski, owner of Mary Ann’s Specialty Foods in Webster City, Iowa, a medium-sized, family owned business. Bill found us through a Google web search. He needed a special Reliance servo motor...

If you’ve got an older servo motor or electronic with the name “Indramat” on it, you may have a little bit of trouble following a trail of names to figure out how to get it replaced.

History of Indramat

1. Indramat was a German company founded in 1958
2. It was then acquired by Rexroth AG in 1965<...

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If you have a line of CNC machining center(s), a process that uses robots, or a machine that uses servos as indexers for part placement, you know that servo motors are critical. In fact, they are usually one of the first part types in these machines to need service or replacement.

Servo motors repeat the same motion for long periods of time exceptionally well, but eventually...

    To stay competitive in the industrial repair industry, you have to have fair prices on repairs. You also have to guarantee the repair with a lengthy warranty to give additional value. To compete against Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM), you have to offer solutions that are attractive in regards to price, efficiency...

    When a repair comes in, we may know about a couple of the symptoms, or we may be left totally in the dark. So, the first thing we do is plug in the faulty unit and try to run it with other components to try and determine what the faults might be. We then repair the causes of those faults. We do perform preventative maintenance repairs on the rest of the unit...

    Over the years, we have collected, bought, acquired, and salvaged thousands of pieces of surplus inventory. From customers who no longer needed it, auctions, and dealers all over the country. Most of it is targeted to what we can repair in-house. Alot of it is brand NEW, which speaks for itself. Some of it now obsolete...