About
One Person, One Category of Part
Most sourcing websites will not tell you who is behind them. This page does, because on a site that spends 22 guides telling you how to specify a machine base, you are entitled to know who is doing the telling.
Who
I run cncmachinebase.com on my own from Ho Chi Minh City. There is no sales team behind this site and no office you can visit; there is one person who reads every enquiry that arrives.
The work is narrow on purpose. I do not source everything from Vietnam. I source one class of part: the large welded, cast and filled structures that machine builders bolt their machines to. Bases, beds, columns, gantries, frames and heavy weldments.
That narrowness is the whole basis of whatever usefulness this site has. A generalist sourcing agent has to take your drawing at face value and pass it on. Knowing one category well enough means I can tell you when the drawing has a problem before three fabricators quote it three different ways.
How this is paid for
This is the part most sourcing sites leave vague, so here it is in full.
Buyers pay nothing. No fee for the enquiry, no fee for the match, and no commission on whatever you eventually order. You never receive an invoice from me.
Fabricators deal with me separately. Their terms are agreed one-to-one before the first enquiry is sent.
Nothing is taken from the order. I do not sit inside the contract, I do not hold the money, and I do not take a percentage of what you spend. Once a fabricator takes the lead, you deal with them directly and I have no financial interest in how large the order becomes.
Why this matters: the common arrangement in this industry is an agent paid a commission by the factory on the finished order. That agent has a reason to steer you toward the factory that pays them most, and a reason to want the order to be as large as possible. Taking nothing from the order removes both incentives. You should ask any sourcing agent how they are paid, and be wary of a vague answer.
What I will not claim
I am not a foundry and not a fabrication shop. I do not own machines, I do not employ welders, and no part is made by me. Any site in this space that implies otherwise while operating as an intermediary is worth a second look.
- No certifications are claimed for this operation. ISO 9001 and ISO 3834 belong to the fabricators, and they will show you their own certificates.
- No factory is named on this site without that factory's agreement.
- No client list, because most of this work is under NDA and a fabricated one is worse than none.
- No invented figures. Every number in the guides is from a published standard or attributed to whoever published it.
What I actually do
- Read your drawing, and tell you if something in it will cause three fabricators to quote three different jobs.
- Decide which construction and which shops suit the part: size class, crane capacity, machining envelope, stress relief capability.
- Put it in front of up to 3 of them, under NDA if you asked for one.
- Tell you plainly when the part is outside what I can place, rather than letting the enquiry go quiet.
That fourth one is the one that costs me money and is the reason to trust the other three.
Why only machine bases
Because a sourcing agent who covers everything covers nothing. The questions that decide whether a machine base is quoted correctly (cast or fabricated, which stress relief method, how many setups, what the datum scheme is, whether the flatness call is realistic) are specific, and you only learn them by staying in one category.
The 22 guides on this site are the same knowledge written down. Read them and judge for yourself whether the person behind the RFQ form knows the category. That is a better test than any credential I could put here.
Have a base to price?
Send the drawing, or just the envelope and the load case if the design is not final. You get an answer within 24 business hours, including when the answer is that I cannot place it.