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A small machine shop in Newark, Delaware where the person who reads your print also builds it

No sales desk, no estimator in another building. The call-back about your drawing comes from the bench, usually with a question about a datum you forgot to dimension.

A toolmaker turning the handwheel of a manual mill
Manual knee millFixture plate, first side
Who runs this site

Hadaway Tool, a job shop on Dawson Drive

This site belongs to Duhadawaytool, trading as Hadaway Tool at duhadawaytool.us. It is a small metalworking job shop, not a broker and not a marketplace. The work is done under one roof at 1 801 DAWSON DR, NEWARK, DE 19713, United States, and that's where a finished fixture sits waiting when you come to pick it up.

We don't publish a headcount or a founding year, and we won't dress the shop up with either. What you can weigh instead is below: the machines on the floor, the materials we keep in the rack, and the sheet of measured numbers that goes out with every job.

Customers are mostly manufacturing engineers, maintenance leads and small OEMs within driving distance of Newark, plus a few who ship prints from further away because a production shop wouldn't answer an email about four fixtures.

Trading name
Hadaway Tool
Operator
Duhadawaytool
Kind of business
Tooling job shop
Based in
Newark, DE
What the shop actually makes

Jigs, fixtures and steel parts that let your line run

Tooling for somebody else's production. One to fifty pieces, from a print, a sketch with dimensions, or a worn sample.

  • A

    Welding and holding fixtures

    Steel base plates, 4140 pre-hard locators pressed in, toggle and swing clamps, Delrin pads where a finished part mustn't be marked. Located off machined datums, never a cast surface.

    Fixtures
  • B

    Drill jigs, gauges and soft jaws

    Hardened press-fit or slip-renewable bushings. Go/no-go gauges in A2 or D2, heat treated outside. 6061-T6 soft jaws cut to your part for second-op work on your own mill.

    Production tooling
  • C

    Frames, guards and short-run brackets

    A36 tube and angle, MIG welded, pads machined after welding, up to about 72 in long. Brake-formed guards. Brackets in batches small enough that nobody else wants them.

    Fabrication
  • D

    Repair and reverse-engineering

    Worn locators and bushings replaced, bases re-machined to print. Samples measured on the granite plate and drawn as a DXF or STEP that you keep.

    Repair

Every job is a fixed price quoted in writing after the drawing is reviewed. Nothing is sold on this site, there's no cart and no payment is taken here.

The people at the bench

Who reads the print is who builds it

The same pair of hands takes your job from drawing review to crate. That's deliberate. Most fixture mistakes we've been asked to fix started as a hand-off: an estimator promised a clamp arrangement the builder couldn't fit, or a builder guessed at a datum nobody called about.

So the call comes from the bench. Expect questions like which face is A, does the part come in with the flash on, and is 0.002 in on that pin a real number or a title-block default. They take ten minutes and save a week.

Most fixtures fail because the part was located off a cast surface. We locate off machined datums or we ask you why not.

When the fixture is done, the person who built it puts it on the granite plate, measures the critical features and writes the numbers down by hand. That first-article check sheet ships with the job. It isn't a certificate and we don't call it one. See how it fits into the run on how a job runs.

An open toolbox drawer of micrometers, indicators and gauge pins
Top drawerMics, indicators, gauge pins
On the floor

The equipment list, and what each machine limits

Every capability below is also a ceiling. If your part is bigger than the mill, the mill wins.

  • CNC millMachining envelope 30 × 16 × 20 in. Fixture plates, nests, soft jaws, pockets.
  • Manual knee millOne-offs, rework, squaring stock, the job that's faster by hand than by program.
  • LatheLocating pins, bushings, spacers, plug gauges before they go out for heat treat.
  • TIG / MIG weld bayMIG on A36 frames, TIG on stainless and aluminum. Weldments to about 72 in.
  • Press brakeGuards, covers, formed brackets in sheet. Short runs only.
  • Granite inspection plateHeight gauge, dial test indicators. Where every check sheet is written.
  • Held tolerance±0.002 in on locating features as standard. Tighter only by agreement, in writing.
  • Material rackA36, 1018, 4140 pre-hard, 6061-T6, 5052, 304, A2, D2, UHMW, Delrin.
What we turn down

Four jobs we say no to, and the reason each time

  • Runs past fifty pieces

    At 500 brackets a production shop with a turret punch beats our price easily. We'll say so the same day and, if it helps, build the fixture they run it on.

  • Heat treat in-house

    There's no furnace here. A2 and D2 parts go to a heat treater and come back for grinding. That adds about a week and the quote says so up front rather than on the day it's due.

  • Quotes from a phone call

    “About the size of a shoebox, a few clamps” has no price. Send a sketch with dimensions, a photo of where the part sits, or the part itself.

  • Cosmetic polishing

    We finish tooling to work, not to photograph. Mirror polish on a show piece is someone else's trade, and they'll do it better.

Reaching a person

Call the shop or write to it

Phone +1 (302) 366-0113 and you get the shop, not a switchboard. If the machines are running, leave a message with a callback number and a print number if you have one; we return calls during shop hours, Monday to Friday.

Email [email protected] for drawings, questions about an open job, or anything to do with your data. Emails get read on weekdays and answered by someone who can actually open a STEP file. For a new job, the contact form is faster because it asks the questions we'd otherwise email back.

Deliveries and pickups go to 1 801 DAWSON DR, NEWARK, DE 19713. Ring ahead so someone is at the door.

Shop address
1 801 DAWSON DR
NEWARK, DE 19713
United States
When someone answers
Monday to Friday, during shop hours
Have a print on your desk?

Send it over and expect a call from the bench