About MotorsCNC

What this site is

You send one RFQ with a drawing. We read it, work out what the part actually needs, and pass it to up to 3 CNC shops whose machines and gauging fit the job. Those shops quote you directly. You order from whichever one you want, and the order never passes through us.

That is the whole service. We are a matching service, not a machine shop.

Why we do not own machines

This is the part most sourcing sites are vague about, so here it is plainly.

A shop that owns machines can only recommend itself. Ask a five-axis shop whether your end bell needs five-axis work and you already know the answer. Ask a die caster whether your housing should be cast and you know that answer too. The advice is not dishonest, it is just structurally incapable of being neutral.

We own nothing. We have no spindle hours to fill and no tooling to pay off. When the right answer for your part is a simple two operation turning job at a small shop, that is what we say, and it costs us nothing to say it. When the honest answer is that your part is not worth sending out at all, we say that too.

That is the only real advantage a desk like this has over a factory website, and it is the reason the guides on this site read the way they do.

How the money works

• Buyers pay nothing. Not for the RFQ, not for the quotes, not for a subscription.
• Shops pay for matched requests. A shop sees an anonymous preview of your RFQ and decides whether to take it. It pays for the request, not for the order.
• We take no commission on your order. Whether the order is one piece or ten thousand, whether it repeats for five years, we are paid the same amount once. We never see the purchase order and we never touch the money.
• No paid placement. A shop cannot buy its way to the front of a match. If it does not fit the part, it does not see the request at any price.

The incentive this creates is worth understanding: because we are paid per matched request and not per order, we gain nothing from pushing you toward an expensive shop, and we lose if we send a shop a request it cannot win. Both sides of that push in the same direction, which is to match fewer and match better.

Who reads your RFQ

A person, not a form parser. The same person who reads your drawing picks the shops. There is no sales team, no account manager and no routing algorithm deciding which shop pays the most this month.

That is also why the reply window is within 24 business hours rather than an instant automated quote. Anyone can return a number in ten seconds. Working out whether your bearing seat needs a finish boring pass and in process gauging, and which shops actually do that, takes a little longer and is the part worth paying attention to.

How we write these guides

The technical writing on this site follows four rules.

1. Every number has a source or a hedge. Tolerance ranges come from published standards or from ordinary shop practice and are labelled as typical, never as a promise. Where a standard governs, we name it: ISO 286 for fits, ISO 1101 for geometric callouts, ISO 1940-1 for balance grades.
2. Sources are listed. Every guide ends with the standards and references behind it. Links to vendors carry rel="nofollow" so nothing on this site is a paid endorsement.
3. Pages carry a review date. If a page has not been checked in a year, you can see that.
4. We do not invent proof. This site is new. You will not find client counts, testimonials, logos or a network size on it, because any number we printed would be made up. When we have something real to show, it will appear with a date on it.

What we will not do

• Claim to own machines, a factory or a quality system
• Sell your drawing to a list, or share it with more than 3 shops
• Add you to a marketing list because you sent an RFQ
• Take a cut of your order or sit between you and the shop after the match
• Accept money from a shop in exchange for better placement

How we choose the shops

The vetting method is written out in full on its own page, including the parts we cannot verify.

How we vet shops

Contact

Buyers: . Shops: . Corrections to anything published here go to the same buyer address and we will fix errors with a note on the page.