What This Site Is, and How It Makes Money
Most sourcing sites will not tell you this plainly, so it goes at the top rather than in the footer.
The business model in four sentences
- We are not a machine shopWe own no machines and we make nothing. We read your RFQ and match it with shops that turn brass regularly.
- Buyers pay nothingSending an RFQ and receiving quotes is free. There is no membership, no listing fee and no charge on your side at any point.
- Shops pay for matched requestsA shop sees a preview of your part, decides whether it fits, and pays only for the requests it wants to quote.
- We take no commission on the orderOnce you are introduced you deal with the shop directly. We are not in the contract, the payment or the shipment.
Why that matters to you
The way a sourcing intermediary is paid decides how it behaves. Ours has two consequences worth knowing.
We are paid to match well, not often
A shop that buys a request it cannot win stops buying. So sending your drawing to every shop on the list would destroy the business inside a month.
- Your RFQ goes to 3 shops at most
- If only one shop suits the part, it goes to one
- If no shop suits it, we tell you that instead of guessing
We have no reason to inflate your price
We take nothing from the order, so a bigger quote earns us nothing. The shop quotes you directly and you never see a number we have touched.
- No markup on parts
- No commission on the contract
- No incentive to steer you to the most expensive shop
What we will not do
Written down so you can hold us to it. If we break one of these, reply to any email we have sent you and say so.
- Blast your drawingYour files go only to shops that take the request, up to 3. Never to a list, never to a bidding board.
- Sell your detailsYour contact details go to matched shops and nowhere else. We run no marketing list and we sell no data.
- Claim a certificationWe hold none and we never say a shop is certified. Certification attaches to a product and a manufacturer, and that path is yours.
- Pretend to be a factoryYou will not find machine photos, a shop floor tour or a capability list on this site, because none of it would be ours.
- Invent proofNo client counts, no years in business, no testimonials. The site is new and says so.
Why only brass
A site covering every metal ends up saying the same shallow thing about each one. Brass has its own set of decisions that nothing else shares, and they are the decisions that go wrong.
The lead limit that rules out C360 on a drinking water part. The dezincification that eats a fitting in hot water. The burr inside a cross hole that fails a leak test after assembly. The machine choice that changes a quote by a factor of three.
Matching a brass part well means knowing which of those apply before the drawing goes anywhere. That is easier to do properly in one material than in twelve.
How the guides are written
- Published dataAlloy figures are published typical values for the alloy, labelled as such every time, never a promise from a shop.
- Named standardsWe cite NSF/ANSI 61 and 372, ISO 6509, ISO 6957, ASTM B154, EN 10204 and ASME B1.20.1 by name so you can check them.
- Stated limitsWhere a rule is changing, such as the RoHS lead exemption, we give the date and say that it is not legal advice.
- CorrectionsFind something wrong and tell us. We will fix it and say when it changed.
Questions about us
Something else? Email .
Who is behind this site?
A small independent sourcing operation, not a factory group and not a marketplace. We read brass RFQs, match them with shops that turn brass, and get paid by those shops. We do not publish a founder biography or a client list, because a new site claiming either would be asking you to take it on trust rather than on evidence.
How do I know you will not just forward my drawing to anyone?
Shops pay per matched request, so a shop that buys a request it cannot win stops buying. Sending your drawing widely would break the model. Your RFQ goes to 3 shops at most, and to fewer when fewer suit the part.
What do you actually do that I could not do myself?
Read the part and work out which kind of shop should see it. A small threaded brass part belongs on a Swiss lathe or a bar-fed turret, and the same part quoted on a machining centre can come back several times the price. Knowing that before the drawing goes out is most of the value, and it is why quotes you collect at random vary so widely.
Do you mark up the parts?
No. We take nothing from the order. The shop quotes you directly, you contract with the shop, and we never see or touch that number. Our revenue comes from the shop paying for the matched request, before any quote exists.
What happens if you cannot find a shop for my part?
We tell you within 24 business hours, and we say why. Usually it is bar capacity, a lead-free grade the shops we know do not run, or a part that is not really a brass turning job. That answer is more useful than three quotes from shops that would have learned on your part.
Are you certified, or are your shops certified?
We hold no certification and we never state that a shop is certified. Certification attaches to a specific product made by a specific manufacturer at a specific facility, so it is not something a matching service or a subcontract machine shop can hand you for a custom part. What a shop can give you is the alloy, a mill certificate and evidence it has shipped that class of part before.
Have a brass part to quote?
Send the drawing. We reply within 24 business hours with matched shops, or tell you plainly that we cannot help.