Thanks for the replies, Gents: I be in Pueblo, CO. and while closer is better, I'll ship wherever gets me the best work/price. The local machine shops are few and....Not very impressive, and I dislike talking to any of 'em, to be candid! The whole reason I got my education to do this m'self was because shops treated me so badly trying to get parts done. It seems when people hear you're designing 'Toy Car Parts', your cred goes El Flusho....When I do a Ti sprocket for a 10" long 40 MPH motorcycle running .1875 pitch chain, the tolerances are exacting! Much more so than their 1:1 counterparts, so why the stigma, I dunno but it's tangible. Thing with R/C stuff is that cosmetics is all-important: I'd say 85% of upgrade parts sold worldwide are purchased for no other reason than that they look Bas-A$$ (I am not immune from this either.

) So I'm looking for a place that is into the aesthetics and not just an industrial anodizer- Purty Sells! Chris