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If you need accurate, dependable and reliable solutions to your engineering challenges, contact our representatives to design the quality-crafted precision engineering components and assemblies for your application.  Our industry leading electro deposited bellows, edge welded bellows, electroforms, flexible shaft couplings, contacts and sub-assembly services have been successfully used in aerospace, medical, and automotive industries under the most extreme conditions and with the most exacting precision requirements. 
Electrodeposited Bellows
Electrodeposited Bellows
Electrodeposited Bellows
We represent Servometer, the foremost manufacturer of Electrodeposited Nickel Bellows.  Bellows can also be formed in copper, silver and gold if your application requires these metals.  Our bellows are suitable for metallic hermetic seals, volume compensators, pressure and temperature sensors, flexible connectors and countless other applications where quality, dependability and long life are critical requirements.  Servometer Bellows have a normal minimum life of 100,000 cycles and can be designed for "infinite" life. They are seamless and non-porous so dirt and moisture will not contaminate your process. Bellows can be designed to be leak tight to 1 x 10-9 std cc/sec. Miniature bellows can be made as small as 0.020 inches diameter and retain full sensitivity and flexibility.  Contact us to find the best solution for your application.
Edge Welded Bellows
Outstanding performance and reliability, custom designs, and excellent customer satisfaction are just some of the reasons to choose our Edge Welded Bellows.  Our applications have been successfully implemented in the Vacuum, Semiconductor, Aerospace, Oil Service, Solar Power, Agriculture, Commercial and Medical sectors.  We offer a full range of size, shape and material options.  We can provide diameter's from 0.934" (.05 mm) to 26" (160 mm) and thicknesses from 0.002" (.05 mm) to 0.036" (.91 mm).  Let our team develop the exact bellows for your application.
Edge Welded Bellows
Edge Welded Bellows
Couplings
Couplings
If your application requires torsional rigidity and lateral flexibility, our Flexible Shaft Couplings are the solution.  Our couplings exhibit both low windup (due to the bellows' radial rigidity) and low side thrust due to the bellows' lateral flexibility. These couplings are the solution for precision control applications where mechanically tight systems between motors, driven loads, and feedback devices are a requirement. Our bellows-type flexible shaft couplings have extremely low elastic windup, zero backlash, zero cyclic speed variation during 360 degree rotation, and minimal side loading. Typical applications include encoders, resolvers, servos, motion control instrumentation, robotics, CNC machine tools, and precision positioning.
Electroforms
If you require strong, thin-walled precision, metal parts, our Electroforms are the solution.  Using tightly controlled electrodepositing baths, we can ensure extremely high part quality even with the most intricate parts and unusual shapes.  We can produce miniature hollow parts with walls as thin a 0.0003" (.008 mm). Applications include electrical bellows contacts with walls 0.0005" (.013 mm) thick for circuit boards and flexible nickel bellows 0.020" (.51 mm) diameter for laboratory instruments.  Larger parts may have walls up to .025" (.64 mm) and be several feet in diameter.
Electroforms
Electroforms
Contacts
Gold Plated Contacts
Gold Plated Contacts
When an application requires a reliable connection which cannot or should not be permanent, Gold Plated Bellows Spring Contacts are the solution.  Our Bellows type contact springs are made with electrodeposited nickel and then plated with gold to enhance conductivity.  Bellows contact springs can be used in place of wire or mesh cylinders to achieve minimal self inductance, extremely low DC resistance, minimal insertion loss, lifetime spring repeatability, and compression with very small force (as low as 0.04 oz/in of travel) with a seamless and non-porous product.
Sub-Assembly Services
When you have a specialized part that needs to be assembled with the utmost quality, efficiency, and attention to detail, trust our team to supply you with one unique piece or an entire production run.  We specialize in soldering, induction brazing, electron-beam welding and adhesive bonding.  We have developed and produced tens of thousands of customized solutions for our customers which have reduced scrap rates, simplified scheduling, assembly and purchasing, improved process control and reduced parts costs.  Let us use our expertise to design and produce the exact part you need at a cost your budget will appreciate.
Bellows Sub-Assemblies
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