Well we’ve finally got a new site/theme/layout/look/feel up and running after far more faffing about than is healthy for anyone. There’s still a few things to iron out or tweak a bit more, but it’s mostly functional – or as far as I can tell. So, if you care to pass comment on anything you’ve [...]
Continue readingHave Yourselves a Lovely Christmas
Never in a partial month of Sundays did I expect to turn up in the UK for Butler Sheetmetal’s Christmas do and find the weather almost as cold and snowy as Cleveland – you note I say almost. Something else I expected even less was Jasper ‘looking well’. I swear he looked three years younger [...]
Continue readingNEC Exhibition Stand for Axess 2 Limited
Here’s an exhibition stand we recently fabricated components of for Axess 2, who specialise in platform lifts for most purposes you can think of. The following pictures (which I think Axess took) show their entire stand from various angles while they where down at the NEC in Birmingham. I’ve been told the Butler Sheetmetal guys [...]
Continue readingAre Burnley the New Susan Boyle?
UTC! Burnley is so northern that if you were to get stabby with it using a kitchen knife it’d bleed that most northern of mythical creatures resembling the body of a whippet, the wings of a pigeon and a mane functioning as a flat cap. The only way to trap one is to taunt it [...]
Continue readingThe closest we ever get to the fabrication and design of buses is beating the living panels out of the local Tyrer fleet after they’ve pranged a bus shelter. Although we (and by we I mean Matt) did happen to design a fuel arm loading bracket to prevent the overspill of diesel while fueling locomotives [...]
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The Tinbasher is the award-winning company blog of Butler Sheetmetal Ltd UK, a small fabrication shop in the darkest recesses of North West England.
Recent Posts
- Oh, Look! A Spanking New Theme
- I Really Wanna See Those (Slow Motion) Fingers Stop a Saw Blade
- Manufacturing Exhibition at Reebok, Bolton
- There’s Been Worse Weeks
- Duplex Stainless Steels Fabrication – Practical Guidelines
- A Right Royal (Claret & Blue) Do; and Obama Visits a College
- Firemen Use Angle Grinder to Free Man’s Pipe from Steel Pipe
- Have Yourselves a Lovely Christmas
- NEC Exhibition Stand for Axess 2 Limited
- BSSA Stainless Steel Fabrication Workshop: Best Practice




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